Example sentences of "[prep] as far [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 2 | And er , on that message , er , it seems , er good enough time to say that 's er , all we have time for as far as the phone calls are concerned on the Breakfast Call this morning . |
| 3 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 4 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 5 | On hearing this , the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see . |
| 6 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 7 | Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle . |
| 8 | It 's a white place , like Wigan which only seems to have a Black population on Tuesday nights when the music from the Wigan Pier nightclub 's jazz-funk DJ draws in young Blacks from as far as the Midlands to body-pop . |
| 9 | Later , Patrick discovered that Tracey 's tree would not balance as one rod was not pushed in as far as the others . |
| 10 | In as far as the plotters hoped to engineer a state of affairs which might enable Japan to occupy substantial parts of Manchuria , the plot failed . |
| 11 | The physical aspect of my journey had collapsed : a heel injury became aggravated , with a cut almost in as far as the bone , and the rest of the tour found me on wheels or afloat more than on foot . |
| 12 | The preamble further asserts that the company are making ‘ considerable progress ’ on the remaining portion of the main line between Bishop 's Castle and the Cambrian , which is not exactly according to fact , in as far as the term ‘ considerable progress ’ is popularly understood . |