Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] as far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had certainly mentioned the possibility of independence as far back as the mid- 1950s . |
| 3 | This beautiful fish is Pseudanthias bimaculatus which has been recorded from location as far apart as Mozambique and Indonesia . |
| 4 | The counterfeit packages have been found on sale as far afield as Ghana and South Africa . |
| 5 | Thin veils of smoke , detected by satellite as far away as southeastern Pakistan , 2000 km east of Kuwait , were found to have risen to heights of between 6 and 7 km . |