Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] as far [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But dégorgement dates back at least as far as Dom Pérignon , who we know kept bottles stored , neck downward , in a bed of sand in order to encourage the sediment to drift down to the base of the cork . |
| 2 | Of course , the sense of the danger to English studies from viewing literary texts as social , historical , or cultural " documents " reached back at least as far as Newbolt , and every subsequent suggestion that texts be used in such a way rekindled related anxieties . |
| 3 | THE CIVIL WAR IS NOT OVER YET — at least as far as Britain 's beer duty collectors are concerned . |
| 4 | Worst of all , at least as far as Ben is concerned , they damp down the creative faculty . ’ |
| 5 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 6 | Eventually heads were put together , a suitable ‘ incident ’ was manufactured to satisfy all concerned , and the whole episode chalked up to experience , at least as far as J. was concerned . |
| 7 | The railway will come at least as far as Witney , you mark my words . |
| 8 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 9 | Ideas relating the folds and faults expressed in the Mesozoic cover of southern England to the underlying basement structure go back at least as far as Godwin-Austen ( 1856 ) , but have gradually become more firmly based . |
| 10 | This tells us that Potnia had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos , since this temple — and only this one — was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth , at least as far as Crete was concerned . |
| 11 | Priestley was not a Christian , at least as far as George III and the Anglican Church were concerned . |
| 12 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 13 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |