Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adv] away as " in BNC.
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1 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
2 | Its influence is felt as far away as the London Underground , which is having its new , networked , interactive time-tabling system , Cart , programmed by a Delhi firm , CMC . |
3 | The shock of the sinking was felt as far away as the World 's Edge Mountains and is recorded in the chronicles of the Dwarf kings . |
4 | In fact the chances for viewing exciting wildlife are getting rarer every day , as hundreds more people take to the hills , bringing dogs and children and wearing colours that can be seen as far away as Belgium . |
5 | ‘ You have been sacrificed , martyred and cut off in mid-satisfaction , but see it as a noble act for the good of a world-renowned radio station that is admired as far away as Irkutsk , Tristan da Cunha and ( after the recent never-ending Arctic festival ) Greenland . |
6 | The oohs and aahs could probably be heard as far away as Ecclesfield . |
7 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Alyssia gazed at him for a fraction of a second , then she took his advice and walked back to the house , when what she wanted to do was run as far away as she could from it . |
10 | Temperature reductions of 1–2°C were observed as far away as 2000 km from Kuwait . |
11 | According to Declan Troy , of TERA , an environmental consulting firm on contract to BPX-A , one bird was documented as far away as Smith Bay , near Pt . |
12 | However , active traces carried by currents have been identified as far away as Greenland . |