Example sentences of "far [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose the iterations have proceeded so far that only contributions from the two nearly-equal eigenvalues remain . |
| 2 | The capacity of the mature human individual to run through whole sets of possible scenarios as imagined responses to a problem situation or as a means to achieve a goal so far existent only in thought , is the secret of human ascendancy . |
| 3 | Something was far wrong there . |
| 4 | We were n't far wrong there , as it happens … |
| 5 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 6 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 7 | These chambers all have the feature that they are far , far larger inside than their external dimensions suggest they could be . |
| 8 | But lay the blame where one will , on whom one will , the illusion which inspired Tennyson and Christina Rossetti to sing so passionately about the coming of their loves is far rarer now than then . |
| 9 | I can understand them far better now than I did then . |
| 10 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 11 | But now er with family planning and contraception er they are you know they 're , they 're far better really . |
| 12 | Compared with the prolonged torment and mutilations of life on the ground , the knowledge that a pilot 's expectancy of survival was far poorer even than a machine-gunner 's could not detract from the infantryman 's envy ; even though death commonly meant being burned alive , at least it was quick , clean — and witnessed by thousands . |
| 13 | The Lib Dems are far weaker politically than the party he seeks to replace . |
| 14 | Yet various studies have shown that the volume of strikes was far higher before than after 1950 . |
| 15 | Far worse never to have known that kind of love , an inner voice seemed to say . |
| 16 | Because the neutrons can be so closely packed , the density is far greater even than that of a White Dwarf . |
| 17 | Casualties on the Afghan side were far greater more than a million people were killed in the country as a whole , with the government party and forces sustaining about 70,000 of these losses . |
| 18 | All Shrewsbury 's giving , whether from the heart or the conscience , all Donata 's surrendered vanities , relinquished without regret , all gone with the fugitive ruffians , how far distant already there was no guessing . |