Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 2 | These delightful birds , one species out of the eighteen to be found in the Southern Hemisphere , come from the relatively temperate latitudes along the western coast of South America as far north as Peru . |
| 3 | A company is the most flexible form of business enterprise as far as expansion is concerned . |
| 4 | In 1771 the completion of the Bromberg Canal had linked the Vistula with the Oder and Berlin ; the Dniepr-Bug Canal and the Dniepr-Niemen Canal ( 1775–84 ) opened up the possibility of river trade as far south as Kiew and the Black Sea . |
| 5 | When the Canadian Northern reached Vancouver in 1915 , it reclaimed land at False Creek , one of the many land reclamation schemes which facilitated the building of railway stations as far apart as Bombay and Auckland — and built a massive classical station . |
| 6 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |
| 7 | Alternatively , policy-making elites may choose to co-opt organized interest groups into compliance with government policies as far as possible by creating sham ‘ corporatist ’ institutions and ideologies . |
| 8 | He also says that the committee had raised their concerns to the council about recruitment practice as far back as the late 1970s . |
| 9 | The last wolf was shot in west Germany as far back as 1846 and since then it has been registered as extinct . |
| 10 | Eight cars were provided by each undertaking and gave a five-minute service from West Croydon as far as the ‘ Robin Hood ’ . |
| 11 | He was elected Right Hand Man to the Duns Reiver which involves taking part in Border festivals as far afield as Langholm , and Lanark . |
| 12 | Well , believe me , I have seen corpses enough , bodies piled six , seven feet high , left to steam and rot on battle fields as far flung as France and North Africa . |
| 13 | I mean they do n't feel that way about quantum theory as far as I know . |
| 14 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 15 | The photons in question follow radial paths for which the time elapsed between emission and detection is where the probe is at radius r and the observer at radius R. As far as the observer is concerned the arrival time T is measured relative to some fixed event , which can be the departure of the probe . |
| 16 | From this source they spread by exchange networks as far as north Poland and the Ile-de-France over a radius as the crow flies of more than 1700 km . |