Example sentences of "[adv prt] as far as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , Derek sold some 1,500 from his farm — on Christmas Eve the queue stretched out as far as the main road . |
| 2 | In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small . |
| 3 | Use of more than one line to steer a kite dates back as far as the 1820s when George Peacock pioneered use of kites for traction of carriages and a boat.He utilised variable tension on two lines to elevate or depress peg-top kites successfully enough to transport as many as 16 lads to a cricket match , including his grandson , W.G.Grace the famous cricketer . |
| 4 | These divisions run very deep and go back as far as the available documents provide information on such matters . |
| 5 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 6 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |