Example sentences of "[noun sg] as far [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also says that the committee had raised their concerns to the council about recruitment practice as far back as the late 1970s . |
| 2 | Straining his neck as far forward as he could , he managed to push the window open several inches and , with another surge , wedged himself in the embrasure ; the spike on which the latch usually rested now sticking into his stomach . |
| 3 | ‘ But the trouble is that we do n't know the pattern of the stars here , ’ said Snodgrass , who had sent himself quite dizzy by standing perfectly still and craning his neck as far back as he could in order to see the night sky . |
| 4 | The turkey originated from the American continent as far back as 10 million years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 6 | Nor is the analogy as far out as it first appears . |
| 7 | Erlich had the passenger seat as far back as it would go and he still shifted his weight about as if he needed another six inches of leg-room . |
| 8 | Merrill thought , as she sat in the car as far away as possible from him . |
| 9 | Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981 . |
| 10 | For out of the agitation there came the Seamen 's United Protection Society , formed in North Shields , but quickly developing branch associations on the east coast as far afield as Aberdeen and Dundee in one direction and Yarmouth in the other , about twenty in all . |
| 11 | The Danish monarchs ruled with the consent of the powerful regional earls , and the family of Godwine of Wessex established hegemony over the south coast as far eastwards as Kent . |
| 12 | Those of you who remember Fred will know how he worked to start the British Pensioners and Trade Union Action Association as far back as nineteen seventy two . |
| 13 | He had certainly mentioned the possibility of independence as far back as the mid- 1950s . |
| 14 | Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered . |
| 15 | Awa Thiam from Senegal , a long time campaigner against genital mutilation and the guest speaker at the above mentioned conference , provided a progressive framework for women campaigning on this issue as far back as the 70's in her book La parole aux Negress , Denoel-Gonthier ( ed ) Paris 1978 , English translation Let Our Black Sisters Speak Out , Pluto Press . |
| 16 | The matter was first drawn to our attention as far back as 1974 when the nuclear industry inspectorate 's chief inspector said this about the consequences of developing reprocessing in the United Kingdom : ’ The price for Britain of building lucrative business world-wide in nuclear fuel services could be that it becomes the dumping place for the world 's nuclear waste . ’ |
| 17 | The first recorded game took place as far back as 1851 with a match between Oporton and Lisbon . |
| 18 | He kept himself diagonally across the room as far away as he could . |
| 19 | The smaller British fund had been licensed to operate by the DTI since 1985 and it had known about the business as far back as 1975 . |
| 20 | Dr Peter Macdonald , the president of the Yorkshire branch of the British Medical Association , wrote a letter to the British Medical Journal as far back as 1932 . |
| 21 | The genealogist who has traced his family tree as far back as is possible through the use of the civil registration records kept at St Catherine 's House , London , and local registry offices then turns naturally to the baptism , marriage and burial registers of the Church of England for the preceding generations . |
| 22 | Can it be that one day , off it goes on , that one day I simply stayed in , in where , instead of going out , in the old way , out to spend day and night as far away as possible , it was n't far . |
| 23 | The elderly woman turned her head as far sideways as the basket strap permitted . |
| 24 | This copy by Thomas Hamilton of the Temple of Theseus in Athens , which is one of the finest classical buildings in Edinburgh , was designated as the home of a Scottish assembly as far back as the late Seventies . |
| 25 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 26 | Psychiatrists , too , have been periodically sceptical of multiple personality disorder , though cases of it appear in the medical literature as far back as the mid-1600s . |
| 27 | As a verb it means simply ‘ to copulate ’ and the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary traces its literary use as a verb as far back as 1503 , when the poet ( and sometime Franciscan friar ) William Dunbar included this line in one of his verses : ‘ Be his feiris he wald have fukkit ’ . |
| 28 | Prior to AD 625 the coins are found mainly in Kent and the upper Thames valley ; afterwards they are found spread over a wider area as far afield as Ireland , Scotland , Derbyshire and Yorkshire , although they remain concentrated in south-east England . |
| 29 | Their ancestry can be traced in the Reading area as far back as 1240 . |
| 30 | Waters were also rising in the Norfolk Broads and there were reports of some minor flooding as far inland as Norwich , which is 20 miles from the coast . |