Example sentences of "about [adv] far " in BNC.
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1 | They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far . |
2 | All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach . |
3 | But do remember , what we 've talked about so far is the Sale Of Goods Act . |
4 | Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere . |
5 | Now based on what we 've talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably did n't think you 'd got ? |
6 | So what I 'm , what I 'm sa , saying now is this , that based on what we talked about so far |
7 | There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff . |
8 | What 's that book about so far , Orgady ? |
9 | And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday . |
10 | Big Black and Swans take this aesthetic about as far as is conceivable or desirable . |
11 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
12 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
13 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
14 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
15 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
16 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
17 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
18 | He accepted Disraeli 's offer of the post of Governor of Labuan — ‘ about as far from his creditors as he could get ’ . |
19 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
20 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
21 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
22 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
23 | Bushwick is a neighbourhood about as far removed from flashy mid-town Manhattan as it is possible to get . |
24 | King , therefore , sold the Southern shares to D C Thomson of Dundee — about as far removed from a ‘ regional ’ interest as could be imagined . |
25 | In most other respects , in terms of personality , ideology , political credibility and intellectual coherence , Mosley 's and Leese 's fascism were about as far apart from each other as it was possible to be . |
26 | By and large , of course , your average Euro-Communist is about as far to the left as an English liberal , but here , among these dry Tuscan hills , they have a tougher breed , who hark back to the guerrilla fighters of 1943 . |
27 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
28 | What about as far round as that high , nothing as far round here ? |
29 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
30 | Six months after gatecrashing the UK mainstream , this unphased quarter are in the city of Angels — about as far away from their Northwich base ( both culturally and geographically ) as you can get . |