Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 2 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 3 | Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy . |
| 4 | For the present , however , we will confine our attention to the Sunda Arc comprising Sumatra , Java and the chain of smaller islands extending eastwards as far as longitude 123°E ( Fig. 3.14 ) . |
| 5 | In certain species , the long , fine roots trail below as far as the muddy or sandy bottom and anchor the plant , still giving it ample freedom for floating . |