Example sentences of "from [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expanding vapour drives a turbo generator while the ammonia is reliquefied in a condenser by cold water pumped from as deep as 3,000 feet in a self-contained operation . |
| 2 | The first designation of the substantial Agenais family of Durfort as knights , for instance , dates from as late as 1243 . |
| 3 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 4 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 5 | The ability to seek out travel services for the customer even when they do not appear on brochure racks has brought the company a strong following in the town but also , according to manager Sandra Chisholm , from as far as Glasgow . |
| 6 | Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle . |
| 7 | This is the main hinterland which the port serves , although some orders come from as far as London , South Wales or Scotland . |
| 8 | True Londoners were sobered up by what was happening to their town , but young fellows , sometimes coming from as far as California , felt very lost and lonely , and sometimes escaped via the bottle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although the perfume is rapidly diluted by the air , the male 's antennae are so sensitive that he can detect a female from as far as 5 kilometres away . |
| 11 | He looks guardedly back , from as far as he can lean away . |
| 12 | The group has received donations from well-wishers from as far as Bangor and Holyhead . |
| 13 | They come , he said , from a wide area : from as far as Newcastle and Durham , Stockton , Middlesbrough and Redcar . |
| 14 | On the saturday there are seven-a-side football competitions for youngsters involving 30 or more teams who travel from as far as Newcastle in the North and Wetherby in the South to take part . |
| 15 | Medau enthusiasts descended on Aston Clinton 's Green Park Centre ( itself a lovely setting ) from as far as France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , the course being fully booked long before the closing date . |
| 16 | Mechanical joins such as rivets are easily recognised but , from as early as 2500 BC in Sumer , smiths developed methods of joining one metal with another of a lower melting point . |
| 17 | From as early as the 1860s , Western scientists have been interested in how these colours were produced . |
| 18 | I mentioned earlier the finding that ( from as early as the second year of life ) boys are , on average , more aggressive than girls ; and there are also differences in the way in which the sexes express their hostility . |
| 19 | Other material of wide interest dates from as early as the Saxon period . |
| 20 | The term ‘ modern ’ is interpreted widely , for some works date from as early as the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | A popular resort , its beaches stretch for miles and the city 's particular charm lies in its past — we visited underground Minoan tombs and explored an old Venetian town , dominated by a well-preserved fortezza and mosques dating from as early as 1670 . |
| 22 | A church has stood in Lowthorpe from as early as the Norman Conquest . |
| 23 | The sculptures are almost entirely of Flemish origin and date from as early as the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | Much of the attack on the slave trade from as early as the end of the 1780s to the debates of 1806 could equally have been , and was , an attack on slavery . |
| 25 | Even so , it is worth getting to know and keeping a sharp look out for the signs from as early as May on , because if you act quickly enough it is possible to stop the attack before it spreads through the rest of the foliage by picking off , and , this is important , burning the infected parts . |
| 26 | The Romans were taking the Merano Cure from as early as the 4th century and its spring waters are said to be among the best in the world . |
| 27 | Children repair what they themselves say from as early as one or one-and-a-half years of age . |
| 28 | What was long ago fished for from Saint-Jean , as from Biarritz , was whales , from as early as the eleventh century and as far away as Newfoundland . |
| 29 | From as early as 1906 , therefore , they showed greater concern to restrain than to encourage mass protest against the high-handed actions of the autocracy . |
| 30 | In planning its programme the Association emphasized its international objectives advertising , for example , from as early as 1924 , annual holidays at two centres in the USSR : a ‘ unique opportunity to experience the USSR 's great natural beauty , priceless and world famous works of art , gigantic collective farms and the thrill of seeing in progress the greatest social experiment in the world 's history . ’ |