Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as far [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith is mentioned in historical records as far back as 1128 , but its authentic history as a port dates from 1329 when King Robert the Bruce granted a charter of ‘ The Harbour and Mills of Leith ’ to the City of Edinburgh . |
| 2 | London was linked to all parts of the provinces by weekly services as far back as the reign of Charles I and probably earlier . |
| 3 | Nummulites are a giant kind of foraminiferan , an important group of rock-forming organisms as far back as the Carboniferous ( and with ancestors in Cambrian rocks ) , and which still form deep sea oozes today . |
| 4 | Shafts of piercing sunlight slowly push their curious fingers through the dusty waters as far down as they will go . |
| 5 | The race has been taxing young bloods as far back as the 17th Century . |