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 .
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