Example sentences of "for as far " in BNC.

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1 For as far as the distant bluffs , the land is lost to prairie larks and prong-horned antelope .
2 This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see .
3 She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached .
4 Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it .
5 The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom .
6 It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres .
7 And this had been the way things were for as far back as the frogs could remember .
8 She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright .
9 For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted .
10 For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners .
11 And er , on that message , er , it seems , er good enough time to say that 's er , all we have time for as far as the phone calls are concerned on the Breakfast Call this morning .
12 On hearing this , the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see .
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