Example sentences of "[was/were] far [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of treating Richard in this fashion were far greater than the gains to be made from keeping him in suspense about his future . |
| 2 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 3 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |
| 4 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 5 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman had framed his supplementary before hearing my answer to his question , in which I made it clear that the number of nurses who were employed during that period was far greater than the number who qualified . |
| 6 | I realised straight away that there was not an awful lot happening over here ; the country scene was far bigger than the blues at that time . |
| 7 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 8 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 9 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 10 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet during a debate on emergency price curbs , Mr Ryzhkov was far blunter than a man accustomed to the velvety circumlocutions and understatements , second nature to Western central bankers . |
| 11 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 12 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |
| 13 | This was far longer than the age of the earth as calculated by the creationists . |
| 14 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |