Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] as far as " in BNC.
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1 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
2 | ‘ You can wear whatever you want to as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
3 | Later , Patrick discovered that Tracey 's tree would not balance as one rod was not pushed in as far as the others . |
4 | Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle . |
5 | On the saturday there are seven-a-side football competitions for youngsters involving 30 or more teams who travel from as far as Newcastle in the North and Wetherby in the South to take part . |
6 | True Londoners were sobered up by what was happening to their town , but young fellows , sometimes coming from as far as California , felt very lost and lonely , and sometimes escaped via the bottle . |
7 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
8 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
9 | Admittedly , he says , some behaviour is regarded as externally caused in as far as the real explanation is not the intentional one . |
10 | What natural selection does seem to care about as far as sex is concerned is that there is constant re-combination and this is a question of sexual that we 'll touch on later . |
11 | This is the main hinterland which the port serves , although some orders come from as far as London , South Wales or Scotland . |
12 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |