Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] far [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jadeite objects have been recovered over a territory extending from Brittany to the Rhineland as well as over the British Isles as far north as north-east Scotland , far beyond the known sources of the raw material in Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 2 | Members have always owned vast estates and , through important heiress alliances , acquired ( and sometimes disposed of ) property in many counties as far south as Dorset and Kent . |
| 3 | But in 1968 a pair of owls bred in the loft of an oil palm manager 's house and since then they have spread rapidly , throughout the southern states as far north as Kuala Lumpur . |
| 4 | Now he spends his days writing his memoirs 60,000 words so far gardening and reading the Daily Telegraph to see what the enemy says ’ . |
| 5 | I myself was lucky enough last week to see a fine sample of the Lesser Twayblade and another of the Small White Orchid , rare occurrences as far south as this and in these times . |
| 6 | The famous Lisbon earthquake of 1755 , which had faint reverberations as far north as Scotland , led George II to issue a solemn admonition to his people to the effect that ‘ the manifold Sins and Wickedness of these Kingdoms have most justly deserved heavy and severe Punishments from the Hand of Heaven . ’ |
| 7 | The short season available for growth restricts annuals and biennials mainly to the arctic fringe ; one notable exception , Koenigia islandica , produces tiny plants 4–5 cm high in especially favoured areas as far north as Devon Island and northern Greenland , where they set seed annually . |