Example sentences of "took a far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 2 | The Government 's stance took a further knock yesterday when the Conservative Bow Group published a survey showing senior British industrialists were not as vehemently opposed to the Charter as ministers . |
| 3 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 4 | Around the same time , Parliament took a further step towards excluding the dead from the inner cities by taking power to close churchyards . |
| 5 | More gloom at MTM , in breach of banking covenants , took a further 49p off the shares to 25p . |
| 6 | Southampton2 QPR1 SOUTHAMPTON took a further tentative step away from the relegation zone courtesy of another crucial intervention from the emerging Alan Shearer . |
| 7 | Ian Tonkin clocked 12 mins. 58 to improve 16 positions and Owen Pettifor took a further ten with 12 mins. 59 . |
| 8 | The money-lender gave her £20 and took a further charge on her furniture — Bill of Sale no 1 . |
| 9 | Suspicious that the bluish tinge was a little too faint , and the whiff of avgas only slight , he took a further sample . |
| 10 | The descent to Base Camp took a further two days . |
| 11 | It took a further two decades before ‘ the elderly ’ were once more to experience the high profile that they had achieved in the debates of the 1940s and 1950s concerning their position and role in the economy . |
| 12 | After lengthy debates in each national parliament , ratification took a further year to complete . |
| 13 | It took a further five days for America 's ‘ quick-reaction force ’ of marines and helicopters to turn up . |
| 14 | Despite the Royal Commission 's recommendations , their complete absorption by the National Health Service took a further twenty-six years . |
| 15 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 16 | While Jimmy pulled on a pair , Cardiff strode over , took a further pair from Frye and returned to the light switch . |
| 17 | In December 1987 this adjustment process took a further week and the final outcome is as recorded in Table 3.5 . |
| 18 | I took a further risk . |
| 19 | The hat took a further turn in Frere 's hands . |
| 20 | TOP took a further step forward at Hunterston last month with the formulation for each manager of his own personal action plan for the programme . |
| 21 | Major , addressing the Welsh Conservative Party conference on June 14 , dismissed those " sulking on the fringe of talks about the destiny of Europe " and declared that " the British government and the British parliament would only move to a single currency if they took a further , separate and explicit decision to do so , not just when to do so but whether to do so at all " . |
| 22 | After a meeting in Damascus on Nov. 9 between Farouq al-Shar'a , the Syrian Foreign Minister , and Farouk Qaddumi , his equivalent in the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , Syria and the PLO took a further step towards the normalization of their relations . |
| 23 | The privatization of the state-owned economy took a further step on Feb. 17 with the start of the preliminary or " zero " round , under which investors were allowed to start placing their vouchers in any of the 437 officially sanctioned investment funds [ for details of privatization programme see pp. 38584-85 ; 38734 ] . |
| 24 | Macedonia took a further step towards independence with the withdrawal of JNA forces from the republic on March 26 . |
| 25 | The Supreme Court on May 4 took a further step in the ongoing process of restricting the rights of prisoners convicted by state judicial systems to have their cases reviewed in federal courts . |
| 26 | The process of designing the Act took nearly two years ; Butler took a further year to steer it through Parliament . |
| 27 | BNFL took a further step along the road of its partnership with schools when about 100 employees from throughout the company converged on Risley for the second annual governors ' seminar . |
| 28 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |