Example sentences of "with [noun] far " in BNC.
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1 | The serious side of this entertaining situation lies in Chaucer 's crediting these two churls with intellects far higher than those of brute beasts . |
2 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
3 | The sailing is interesting , with winds far more predictable ( and warmer ) than in England . |
4 | Within weeks of the Zeebrugge disaster , P&O , the ship 's owners , agreed to a settlement with Pannone far in excess of its statutory obligations . |
5 | Labour , by signing up to the Social Chapter and introducing a minimum wage of £3.40 an hour , will make flexible jobs for women with families far too expensive for most employers to contemplate . |
6 | She must must must give him the money , the ships , anything , and he must must must carry her flag and her favour beyond the end of the end of the earth , into exaltation and immortality , linking them for ever with bonds far harder to dissolve than those of any mortal love , the harsh and deifying ties of history . |
7 | It came in the spring , when men 's minds were occupied more with the new wave of cattle-fever than with wars far overseas . |
8 | Whilst the total number of holidays authorized increased by nearly 50 per cent over the period shown both Thomson and Intasun expanded by a greater proportion but with Intasun far outstripping Thomson 's growth . |
9 | Very occasionally , such a challenge is mounted in the United Kingdom with results far from the conclusiveness one would expect on a matter of such a fundamental constitutional character . |
10 | There are , however , still substantial differences between the subjects followed in universities and polytechnics , with men far outnumbering women in the science subjects . |
11 | There was a class of ‘ night-people ’ with life-styles far removed from the humdrum daytimers . |
12 | With Plehve far from the field , Auffenberg , rather than going in pursuit , should change direction and strike the advancing armies of Ruzski and Brusilov from the north , while the Second Army , from Serbia , at last in position , struck from the south . |
13 | Despite this lack of data , science popularisers delight in calling Earth an insignificant ‘ speck of dust ’ , and science-fiction writers love to populate the Universe with races far more advanced than ours . |
14 | His distress could have been alleviated with treatment far earlier if he had been diverted into the hospital system straight from the police station , or direct from the court , rather than via prison . |
15 | The South-West forwards tried to play a similar mauling game , but with Teague far short of his true form they seldom made much headway and only occasionally produced clean possession for Hill . |