Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] as far [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres .
2 The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom .
3 It 's a white place , like Wigan which only seems to have a Black population on Tuesday nights when the music from the Wigan Pier nightclub 's jazz-funk DJ draws in young Blacks from as far as the Midlands to body-pop .
4 The group has received donations from well-wishers from as far as Bangor and Holyhead .
5 On hearing this , the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see .
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