Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] as far apart [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most universal of all designs ; it is found in the artistic and religious expression of cultures as far apart as America , Europe and India , as well as China , and has been ascribed many meanings ; the most popular of these are happiness , the heart of the Buddha and the number 10,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ It could be defined more as a jazz-funk fusion , drawing from influences as far apart as Miles Davis and Parliament . |
| 3 | The worst hit areas were in North Wales , the north west and the Midlands , although no-one 's been hurt in the mini quake which was felt in districts as far apart as Devon and Scotland . |
| 4 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 5 | ORT is one example of the health care programmes which CARE is helping to introduce in countries as far apart as India and Peru . |
| 6 | Muslims are just as divided as Christians : by ethnic origin ( they hail from areas as far apart as Turkey and Nigeria ) ; by language ( as well as Arabic , their native tongues include Urdu , Bengali , Hausa , Swahili and Farsi ) ; by doctrine ( three-quarters are Shias and the rest are Sunnis ) ; by money ( Kuwaiti bankers do not usually invite Bradford textile-workers to their Knightsbridge dinner parties ) ; and by politics . |
| 7 | Louis Bizat , the Palace 's present general manager , says : " When it burned down I received , within eight days , over 200 telegrams , of which 190 were from abroad , from places as far apart as Canada , Hong Kong , the States , Australia , all expressing their sorrow that this had happened . |
| 8 | The success of Carry On Nurse in America did n't alter the fact that the fans were mostly in Britain and the Commonwealth , but the mail poured in from places as far apart as Kenya and Hong Kong . |
| 9 | In fact , wind power is already contributing energy to the national grid in places as far apart as Ilfracombe in Devon , and Ripon in North Yorkshire , with dozens more wind farms planned by the turn of the century . |
| 10 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 11 | For a time before the Roman invasions several powerful Illyrian or Graeco-Illyrian kingdoms existed in places as far apart as modern Albania and Macedonia in the south and the upper Sava basin in the north . |
| 12 | It has no apparent direct ancestors or descendants , yet it turns up simultaneously in places as far apart as Indonesia , northern Siberia , Turkey and Nevada . |
| 13 | The deal , released yesterday , will boost Tory election prospects in seats as far apart as Preston , Lancashire , where British Aerospace build Tornado bombers , Brough on Humberside , where Hawk trainers are built , Southampton where Vosper 's build minesweepers , and Yeovil in Somerset , the home of Westland helicopters — all expected to be part of the arms package . |
| 14 | Two of the very common gold coins of the Roman Emperor Claudius I , struck from the same dies , have been found in hoards as far apart as Kent and southern India . |
| 15 | By the end of the 19th century , Guinness was being enjoyed in territories as far apart as America , Africa and Australia . |
| 16 | To my academic colleagues on both the physical and human sides and the biogeographical middle of the subject I would like to express the hope that my method of expressing salient parameters , in fields as far apart as climatology and social geography , in terms of a common set of units — the Watt and the calorie — has value for the future of our subject . |
| 17 | This beautiful fish is Pseudanthias bimaculatus which has been recorded from location as far apart as Mozambique and Indonesia . |
| 18 | Taken from 190 miles above , the film shows pollution in rivers and oceans , the extent of rainforest destruction from burning and major silt damage in rivers as far apart as the Mississippi , the Yangtze and the Betsiboka in Madagascar . |
| 19 | The First Orchestra has recently appeared in venues as far apart as Worcester Cathedral , Dunkeld Cathedral , Huntly Parish Church and the Usher Hall , and also enjoys a number of foreign links which have taken them to Denmark , Bavaria and Italy within the last few years . |
| 20 | Our travels led us to places as far apart as Sanderstown , San Francisco , New York , and London — all in search of an ‘ insurance ’ that would guarantee for us peace and tranquillity on Koraloona , the most beautiful island of the whole beautiful Moto Varu archipelago . |