Example sentences of "about [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 32 | If they were , say , a million times more common than this , then the nearest black hole to us would probably be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers , or about as far away as Pluto , the farthest known planet . |
| 33 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 34 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 35 | What natural selection does seem to care about as far as sex is concerned is that there is constant re-combination and this is a question of sexual that we 'll touch on later . |
| 36 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 37 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | So you are about as far away from absolute egalitarianism as you can get , you are actually enshrining |
| 40 | It might seem unlikely but down in serene Somerset about as far from Teesside as you can get there are a few locals who would agree with him this week . |
| 41 | Some might think Langholm an unlikely location for a PLC head office — about as far from the madding crowd as you could get . |
| 42 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 43 | Well it 's only about as far up there as it is up town . |
| 44 | The lower limit of TL dating of sediment is closely linked with uncertainty about how far the sediment was bleached in antiquity , and this led to development of the optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL ) technique . |
| 45 | There is some divergence of evidence about how far his relationships with black people affected him . |
| 46 | In recent weeks there has been a war of claim and counter-claim between the board and the inspectorate about how far some of the key issues , such as fuel clad ballooning , the integrity of the steam generator and the reactor 's protection , have been resolved . |
| 47 | Sally lived in a happy whirl marred only by worrying about how far she should go . |
| 48 | That said , there is a serious question about how far we can speak of ‘ women 's languages ’ or ‘ genderlects ’ in the same way we talk of ‘ Lancashire dialect ’ or ‘ Jamaican creole ’ . |
| 49 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 50 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 51 | Despite the problems we are inclined to accept some homologies in the nervous system , although there is disagreement about how far one should take it . |
| 52 | Thus , for example , the way in which it is proposed to structure the rules regulating take-over bids simply reflects a judgment about how far acquiring companies should , through the mechanism of the take-over bid , be given the opportunity of dislodging the managers of the target company — a judgment which can not be justified simply by appealing to the ideal of a free market . |
| 53 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 54 | And erm what I 'd like is for Dennis is to explain a little about how far we 've actually got with the C E D G approach to the introduction of I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 55 | Today there is dispute about how far he caused his and his followers deaths , or they were victims of a needless tragedy . |
| 56 | In Committee there were substantial debates about how far the effectiveness of schools could fairly be judged simply by the publication of crude raw data on their results . |
| 57 | Widely differing arguments have been advanced about how far individual member states and the Community should respond by introducing an element of social protection to this process of completing the Single European Market . |
| 58 | As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations . |
| 59 | This point should be emphasized , because there has been debate among historians , particularly between M. M. Postan and K. B. McFarlane , about how far the war affected the total wealth of England . |
| 60 | Another on the second point about how far a Christian organisation like this school should go in showing forgiveness . |