Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |
| 2 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 3 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 4 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 5 | Well when I was last playing with it that James kept on er in and in that erm he stopped at the station and I have to take it like that far enough cos I wanted Gordon to be there so he co could pick up the express pick , up the coaches |
| 6 | During the nine months of burning oil wells , acid deposition posed a significant threat not only to Kuwait and its neighbours but also as far away as 2000–3000 km . |
| 7 | Hawaii and Iceland are nearly as far apart as it is possible to get on Earth , but both are composed of basalts , and oceanic volcanoes everywhere in the world are composed of almost identical basalts . |
| 8 | And since CDs , and the digital process , allow us to hear far more far quietly than was ever before possible , a number of companies are , very sensibly , capitalising on the 78 treasures which many people have never heard . |
| 9 | Here in a vault at the county 's record office are kept seventy five thousand wills dating as as far back as fifteen forty one . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 11 | Those who live nearby can take in items for repair , but the company will also accept commissions from overseas — even as far away as Australia . |
| 12 | The charred remains of many books fell near his home and even as far away as Windsor . |
| 13 | So strong is the activity in these discharges that it can still be measured in the sea right down the western coast of Britain , northwards round the top of Scotland , and even as far away as Scandinavia . |
| 14 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 15 | Even as far back as 1978 the white paper on the nationalized industries welcomed the development of audit committees and the contribution they could make to improved efficiency . |
| 16 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 17 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 18 | This would imply that the primordial black hole closest to the earth is probably at least as far away as the planet Pluto . |
| 19 | ‘ Ideas ’ have played a part in philosophy at least as far back as Plato , for whom they had a reality of their own quite apart from any relation they might have to our minds . |
| 20 | Ronald Reagan 's serious interest in politics dates at least as far back as his early days in Hollywood and , given the later doubts about his intelligence , it is interesting to note that , at this stage , he hardly lived up to the image of an empty-headed film actor . |
| 21 | Educationalists have taken such stances throughout the history of compulsory schooling and they can trace the roots of their position at least as far back as the writings of William Godwin ( 1756–1836 ) and J. J. Rousseau ( 1712 — 78 ) . |
| 22 | In forging this connection between familial morality and the strength of the nation state , Hopkins was drawing on a long-established tradition of moral philosophy dating at least as far back as the late eighteenth century . |
| 23 | The system was improved in 1597 , when ministers and churchwardens were instructed henceforth to keep their records in a bound register and to copy out surviving documents at least as far back as 1558 , when Elizabeth came to the throne . |
| 24 | This followed the line of the river , which ran straight from almost as far away as they could see , flowing smoothly without fords , gravel shallows or plank bridges . |
| 25 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 26 | Perhaps more important still , each half of the series has a large five-note group in the zones of B and F. Note that these zones , being a tritone apart , are tonally as far apart as is possible . |
| 27 | And what happens from district to district , region to region , is sometimes as far apart as John Major and the British people . |
| 28 | You will be out on exercise , sometimes in the UK , and sometimes as far afield as Norway , Cyprus or the Falkland Islands where you will learn what cooking in rugged conditions really means . |
| 29 | She ranges historically as far back as the Florence of Savonarola 's time in Romola , and geographically she actually encompasses themes such as Judaism in her last novel Daniel Deronda , and that , I think , you know , takes her both chronologically and geographically well beyond Jane Austen 's range of interest . |
| 30 | At all times in the past , certainly as far back as the Neolithic period , there have been particular places to which surrounding settlements have looked for specialised goods and services . |