Example sentences of "[noun] as [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government has invested £1.1m to make CD-Rom technology available in schools and apart from being available in many North-East schools our CD-Rom is widely used in schools as far afield as St Albans and London . |
| 2 | ‘ It could be defined more as a jazz-funk fusion , drawing from influences as far apart as Miles Davis and Parliament . |
| 3 | ‘ In pregnancies as far along as yours , one 's womb will expand and then contract after the termination , causing some pain and discomfort . |
| 4 | He also says that the committee had raised their concerns to the council about recruitment practice as far back as the late 1970s . |
| 5 | Straining his neck as far forward as he could , he managed to push the window open several inches and , with another surge , wedged himself in the embrasure ; the spike on which the latch usually rested now sticking into his stomach . |
| 6 | ‘ But the trouble is that we do n't know the pattern of the stars here , ’ said Snodgrass , who had sent himself quite dizzy by standing perfectly still and craning his neck as far back as he could in order to see the night sky . |
| 7 | The turkey originated from the American continent as far back as 10 million years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 9 | Nor is the analogy as far out as it first appears . |
| 10 | If you do not have Model Books as far back as 35 , all is still not lost . |
| 11 | Erlich had the passenger seat as far back as it would go and he still shifted his weight about as if he needed another six inches of leg-room . |
| 12 | Merrill thought , as she sat in the car as far away as possible from him . |
| 13 | Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981 . |
| 14 | For out of the agitation there came the Seamen 's United Protection Society , formed in North Shields , but quickly developing branch associations on the east coast as far afield as Aberdeen and Dundee in one direction and Yarmouth in the other , about twenty in all . |
| 15 | The Danish monarchs ruled with the consent of the powerful regional earls , and the family of Godwine of Wessex established hegemony over the south coast as far eastwards as Kent . |
| 16 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 17 | The worst hit areas were in North Wales , the north west and the Midlands , although no-one 's been hurt in the mini quake which was felt in districts as far apart as Devon and Scotland . |
| 18 | The remainder of the seedlings have been taken to good garden homes as far apart as Tresco on the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Bute in the north . |
| 19 | Those of you who remember Fred will know how he worked to start the British Pensioners and Trade Union Action Association as far back as nineteen seventy two . |
| 20 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 21 | ORT is one example of the health care programmes which CARE is helping to introduce in countries as far apart as India and Peru . |
| 22 | He had certainly mentioned the possibility of independence as far back as the mid- 1950s . |
| 23 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 24 | Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered . |
| 25 | Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own . |
| 26 | Still , it might be worth booking a session as soon afterwards as you can manage it , even if that is the next day . |
| 27 | Awa Thiam from Senegal , a long time campaigner against genital mutilation and the guest speaker at the above mentioned conference , provided a progressive framework for women campaigning on this issue as far back as the 70's in her book La parole aux Negress , Denoel-Gonthier ( ed ) Paris 1978 , English translation Let Our Black Sisters Speak Out , Pluto Press . |
| 28 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 29 | Muslims are just as divided as Christians : by ethnic origin ( they hail from areas as far apart as Turkey and Nigeria ) ; by language ( as well as Arabic , their native tongues include Urdu , Bengali , Hausa , Swahili and Farsi ) ; by doctrine ( three-quarters are Shias and the rest are Sunnis ) ; by money ( Kuwaiti bankers do not usually invite Bradford textile-workers to their Knightsbridge dinner parties ) ; and by politics . |
| 30 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |