Example sentences of "[adv] far [noun sg] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | He currently lives and teaches in Bogota , but his schooling took him as far north as the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale . |
2 | It is found throughout the Amazon and Orinoco basins , and as far north as the Atlantic coast of Central America . |
3 | In the fairly recent zoological past , around 2500 BC , the range of the Asian elephant reached from the Tigris-Euphrates basin to China , at least as far north as the River Yangtze . |
4 | Pleistocene fossils ascribed to N. lapillus are widely distributed on both sides of the Atlantic , as far south as the Canary Islands ( Talavera , Kardas and Richards , 1978 ) . |
5 | From 1316 when Lancaster 's power was at its height , until 1323 , when Edward once again had full control of the government and the thirteen-year truce was concluded , Scottish forces ravaged northern England almost as far south as the Humber , plundering and impoverishing the clergy no less than the laity of that region . |
6 | Hudson Bay , much of the Labrador Sea and the St Lawrence estuary , invests the coasts of Labrador , Greenland , Svalbard , western Alaska and eastern Siberia , closing the northern Bering Sea and filling the Sea of Okhotsk as far south as the Kuril Islands and northern Japan . |
7 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
8 | The large geographical database held in the system covers Europe as far east as the Urals . |
9 | As they adapted themselves to reindeer-herding and continued to expand towards the north-east , the Yakuts absorbed the original Yukagir inhabitants of the tundra as far east as the Kolyma river . |
10 | In fifth-century sources their territory is described as stretching as far east as the Elbe . |