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

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1 Mr Philips further insisted : ‘ We were overwhelmed by the number of messages of support we received from across the North of Ireland , and we even got a phonecall from as far away as Greece . ’
2 I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me .
3 The two-banded plover is a resident species , but the white-rumped sandpiper is a non-breeding visitor from as far away as Arctic Canada .
4 Canon Reggie Twaddell of St Mark 's Parish Church said he had received letters of condemnation from as far away as Crete , Cork and Kilkenny after damage to the stained glass windows .
5 There 's already been interest from as far away as Japan .
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