Example sentences of "far [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press , however , is baying for blood , far preferring the notion that someone within the Mint has got into the habit of dashing off two notes where one will do . |
| 2 | The stock market has so far given the RJB shares the thumbs down . |
| 3 | Yet when it is placed within the wider social and economic context , retirement counselling assumes a breadth and an importance that far transcends the encouragement of useful and meaningful interests and hobbies to fill the ‘ idle ’ hours of leisure . |
| 4 | The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period . |
| 5 | Some of today 's populous places were insignificant before the Industrial Revolution , but they have now far outgrown the village that was clustered around the ancient parish church . |
| 6 | We have so far stressed the similarity of strike waves . |
| 7 | A Labour victory would see house prices fall ‘ almost overnight ’ and a collapse in the value of pensions that would far outweigh the ‘ piffling promises ’ about most families being better off under a Kinnock government . |
| 8 | In Asia and Africa however , Smith argues , the benefits would far outweigh the risks — as they did with smallpox . |
| 9 | Faculty supporters counter that the faculty would still be within the Institute and that the benefits would far outweigh the potential risk . |
| 10 | Yeah I mean what you actually well you 'll find that what you repay erm you know that the benefits you receive in your pension lump sum will far outweigh the cost of repaying those contributions . |
| 11 | The government argued that reducing distortions in the labour market by cutting income tax would lead to efficiency gains that would far outweigh the valuation that society should put on a more equal income distribution . |
| 12 | For them the dangers of infertility — real or imagined — may far outweigh the dangers of fertility . |
| 13 | The gains would far outweigh the losses , provided Britain made full use of all her bargaining strength , and offered herself as an equal partner and not as a beggar . |
| 14 | The question which has nagged me since is this : how far has the extension of the social services removed the need for the cushion which crofting provided in the crash of 1929 ? |
| 15 | How far has the city grown outwards since 1900 ? |
| 16 | How far has the NHS gone down this road ? |
| 17 | How far has the Ecumenical Decade of the Churches in Solidarity with women affected the life of the churches and the ecumenical movement in general ? |
| 18 | How far has the idea of the University purchasing the former Warburg Library building in Heilwigstraße on the River Alster progressed ? |
| 19 | 10 If a boat travels 120½km the first day and 68⅘km the second day how far has the boat travelled in the two days ? |
| 20 | So how far has the campaign for women 's equality advanced in her long struggle ? |
| 21 | After all , the dead far outnumber the living ! |
| 22 | In the Driftwood at St Agnes , the pub talk also invariably turns to Morocco , although the tales of waves far outnumber the eulogies to drug and carpet buying . |
| 23 | In the iconography , they far outnumber the priests and male attendants , and it may be significant that on Side A of the Agia Triadha larnax the lyre player is a male dressed in a priestess 's robe . |
| 24 | Since the British holdings far outnumber the foreign ones , the shuffle will have to be deft ; and clearly , secondary British works will have to be displayed together in subordinate spaces . |
| 25 | The three found they could speed up the development of the 601 chip by combining work already under way at IBM with Motorola chip technology , and early next year , IBM , Apple and Motorola will announce the PowerOpen Association to rally support for the chip , which has so far won the backing only of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Thomson-CSF SA . |
| 26 | Statutory services have , however , done little so far to encourage the development of such services , even though they can bring very significant emotional benefits to individuals , particularly those living alone or who are estranged from their families . |
| 27 | GAME BOY £69.99 , Nintendo THIS far outsells the rest , and yet technically is the worst of the hand-helds . |
| 28 | The coal that is referred to in this eulogy was mined in pits that did not have to be sunk far to reach the Silkstone seam . |
| 29 | Does n't he care that nuclear energy has so far saved the world from burning five hundred million tons of coal ? |
| 30 | No , better by far to restrict the creative work to two examples of ‘ Sequin Art ’ made by my two elder daughters , aged eleven and nine . |