Example sentences of "they have [adv] far [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 2 | In their first innings , they 've so far reached ( 209 for 6 ) two hundred and nine for six . |
| 3 | They 've so far pledged almost twenty-five thousand pounds — which the scheme 's organiser hopes to transfer into Morland shares , enabling workers to vote against the bid … |
| 4 | After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict . |
| 5 | Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go . |
| 6 | Bragg was contentedly puffing his pipe , and mentally sifting through the facts they had so far obtained , when the door burst open and Inspector Cotton strode in . |
| 7 | The trade associations would continue to monitor the situation , and , while they had so far funded the ‘ Do n't Tax Books ’ campaign ‘ from the petty cash ’ , ‘ we may need to launch an appeal fund in due course ’ , Mr Hitchin said . |
| 8 | Some of today 's populous places were insignificant before the Industrial Revolution , but they have now far outgrown the village that was clustered around the ancient parish church . |
| 9 | My heart pounds , and my throat closes up with fear when this happens , but they have so far beaten a hasty retreat after a selection of Anna 's words , not to be found in any A-level vocabulary book that I 've ever seen . |
| 10 | Similarly , the Soviets plan to supplement the Caterpillar and Komatsu side-boom pipelayers on which they have so far relied , with a new machine that the Sterlitamak works in the Urals will make . |
| 11 | The west of Ireland still enjoys rich ‘ mossy ’ and lichen-covered woods ( and even a lichen-eating and spotted Kerry slug ) , not just because areas such as Killarney have a moist climate but because they have so far escaped most of Europe 's pollution . |
| 12 | As it is now all the more important that Europe should prove that it can walk before it tries to run , may we look forward to a rigid application by our European partners of all those directives that they have so far chosen to ignore ? |
| 13 | ‘ Experiments of nature ’ , the naturally occurring fluctuations of life experience , have therefore been resorted to , but though these have raised some intriguing questions they have so far provided few conclusive answers . |
| 14 | This they have so far managed to suppress with the aid of their ‘ close friends ’ the Americans . |
| 15 | Absent also was Leofwine , who had taken Thorfinn for King as Cormac had , or so it seemed , on the glorious journey to and from Rome , and who had stood trembling as Cormac had on the steps of St Peter 's , one of a brotherhood that had seemed to promise a future none of them had so far dreamed of . |