Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROMNEY Marsh , some forty-five miles south-east of London on the coast of Kent , is a two-hundred-square-mile area reclaimed from the sea by a system of dykes and channels started as far back as Roman times . |
| 2 | Fortunately many of our hill railways and tramways have so far managed to escape the nightmare of the gricer archaeologists — landscaping and land reclamation — because their earthworks , light though they may be , are hard work even for modern ploughs . |
| 3 | Only Germany and Denmark have so far agreed to adopt the 20 per cent cut as a target . |
| 4 | The unbeaten Irish lead Group 3 and have yet to concede a goal — an error-free level of consistency that main rivals Denmark and Spain have so far been unable to match . |
| 5 | Aye er and er I got to the now on the and steamers go so far up , past Le Havre at the mouth Le Havre we disembarked when we went out to France first time and we took guns and all sorts . |
| 6 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 7 | This is by far the biggest task Miss Cassan , 26 , has yet tackled , but she has shown both ability and determination to get this far . |
| 8 | 12.01 am , Richmond and Barnes : For the Liberal Democrats the story in Richmond and Barnes has so far been ‘ so near but yet so far ’ . |
| 9 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
| 10 | For them freedom and self-reliance seem very far away . |
| 11 | But spare a thought for Rajesh Maru , who had played in every B&H and NatWest match so far , but was omitted for the final . |
| 12 | Perhaps it will have occurred to the reader that there might be links between the disorders and treatments described so far . |
| 13 | In 1990 , over 5,000 school teams competed in the various Midland Bank sponsored national schools competitions and figures received so far suggest even more in 1991 . |
| 14 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the limits of the state 's autonomy would seem to be very wide , and Block goes so far as to postulate a ‘ tipping mechanism ’ which could allow the state to take a social formation away from the capitalist mode of production . |
| 16 | The skills and techniques discussed so far are not , in themselves , sufficient for consistent sales success . |
| 17 | It was eight days since they had last lain on the bed together , and sex seemed as far away now as then . |
| 18 | Since March the dogs have competed in a mixture of open and championship shows as far afield as Leeds , Doncaster and Stafford and the occasional show close to home . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope that the energy and drive displayed so far by this member , is only a taste of what is to come . |
| 20 | Up to the mid-1980s , there was a sharp distinction between most time and sight accounts as far as personal customers were concerned ( i.e. at the retail level ) : time accounts paid interest whereas sight accounts did not . |
| 21 | The act however , is extremely difficult to enforce , and fines have so far been nominal . |
| 22 | The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words . |
| 23 | I 've spent a lot of time and effort getting this far . |
| 24 | Courts in Banbury , Woodstock and Aylesbury have so far refused to allow the so-called friends to give advice . |
| 25 | In this chapter we compress into summary form the main findings and issues discussed so far . |
| 26 | Jimmy skipped away up the stairs towards the plinth , just as the girl began to sit up , with Duvall and Rohmer keeping as far away from her as possible . |
| 27 | Even when Shaun and Bez went as far as editing Penthouse for the day , papers tutted and sighed but still printed pictures of the pair grinning like village idiots , surrounded by tits and bums . |
| 28 | It is understood a special six-man squad of detectives is making its own inquiries after meeting a wall of silence generated by fear from the injured men and others seen so far . |
| 29 | ‘ It was quite wet and Imran went quite far down the wicket — he may be a great player but he 's not a great runner — before sending Inzamam back . |
| 30 | Scientific study of whales and dolphins began as far back as the fourth century BC , when the Greek philosopher Aristotle observed and experimented with live animals . |