Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] far as " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time .
2 But the Chinese Muslims are spread throughout the country , from Xinjiang in the north-west right along the Great Wall of China as far as Peking and dotted throughout Ningxia province , including such key cities as Xian , home of the famous terracotta army , where the Chinese-style pavilions of the Great Mosque have been a place of worship for Muslims since the eighth century .
3 The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service !
4 A versatile and hardy traveller , his earliest journey was to Italy and Sicily , the prelude to an extended and detailed tour of Greece as far as Thessaly .
5 Britain remains the Dirty Man of Europe so far as SO&sub2 ; and NOx pollution is concerned , and will do so even when the EC Large Plant Directive is implemented by 2003 .
6 The most important variation from Redcliffe-Maud as far as the structure of local government was concerned was the addition of two further metropolitan areas .
7 Erm , the situation in Shropshire as far as records are concerned is erm , relatively good .
8 In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa .
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