Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.

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1 The present law attributes too much weight to chance : ‘ the offender 's fault falls too far short of the unlucky result .
2 Dainty 's work has so far concentrated on using the technique to grow silicon nitride on silicon , with the hope of a later move to III/V substrates .
3 Eventually Rutherford 's bat protruded too far forward and enabled Stewart to take a smart catch at short leg .
4 Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall .
5 Despite a relatively shortterm median follow up ( 5.7 years ) only three of 10 patients ( 30% ) with definite Crohn 's colitis have so far had their pouch excised , admittedly all were for fistulas , while the remaining seven have satisfactory function despite episodes of recurrent pouchitis in three .
6 Nobody seems to have put astronomy near chemistry ; and the trouble with all series is that progress often seems to happen on the frontiers of sciences that on the philosopher 's map seem as far apart as Finland and Portugal .
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