Example sentences of "[adv] away as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the new century , for example , the Hooligan 's name was snapped up as far away as Tsarist Russia where it was used to describe crimes as diverse as murder , arson and rape , as well as a wide scatter of mischief such as obscenity , window-breaking and stone-throwing , defacing buildings , singing indecent songs , blocking public thoroughfares , brawling and stealing carriage wheels . |
| 2 | In Mycenaean times , Thorikos on the east Attic coast was importing the black volcanic glass called obsidian from the island of Melos , a reminder that there was and is a good little harbour nearby at Laurion ; Attic submycenaean and geometric pottery has been found as far away as western Asia Minor ; and the archaic Athenian colonies at Sigeum and the Chersonese , and the sixth-century cleruchies on Salamis and Euboia , foreshadow the fifth-century empire . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of people came to see it , some from as far away as upper Teesdale and Cleveland , ’ said Mr Pilkington . |
| 4 | Thin veils of smoke , detected by satellite as far away as southeastern Pakistan , 2000 km east of Kuwait , were found to have risen to heights of between 6 and 7 km . |
| 5 | A particularly big tremor on 1 September 1880 damaged an important lighthouse on the Java coast , and was perceptible as far away as northern Australia . |
| 6 | The two-banded plover is a resident species , but the white-rumped sandpiper is a non-breeding visitor from as far away as Arctic Canada . |