Example sentences of "about [adv] far " in BNC.

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1 They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far .
2 All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach .
3 But do remember , what we 've talked about so far is the Sale Of Goods Act .
4 Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere .
5 Now based on what we 've talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably did n't think you 'd got ?
6 So what I 'm , what I 'm sa , saying now is this , that based on what we talked about so far
7 There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff .
8 What 's that book about so far , Orgady ?
9 And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday .
10 Big Black and Swans take this aesthetic about as far as is conceivable or desirable .
11 Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses .
12 Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day .
13 We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) .
14 This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream .
15 Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for .
16 He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application .
17 Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities .
18 He accepted Disraeli 's offer of the post of Governor of Labuan — ‘ about as far from his creditors as he could get ’ .
19 I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go .
20 I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go .
21 This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war .
22 SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment .
23 Bushwick is a neighbourhood about as far removed from flashy mid-town Manhattan as it is possible to get .
24 King , therefore , sold the Southern shares to D C Thomson of Dundee — about as far removed from a ‘ regional ’ interest as could be imagined .
25 In most other respects , in terms of personality , ideology , political credibility and intellectual coherence , Mosley 's and Leese 's fascism were about as far apart from each other as it was possible to be .
26 By and large , of course , your average Euro-Communist is about as far to the left as an English liberal , but here , among these dry Tuscan hills , they have a tougher breed , who hark back to the guerrilla fighters of 1943 .
27 Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get .
28 What about as far round as that high , nothing as far round here ?
29 Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) .
30 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 .
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