Example sentences of "far [adj] [conj] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far larger than the CIA but much less well known . |
| 2 | Because it is far smaller than the KGB with a staff of around 6,000 the GRU is more efficient . |
| 3 | The idea needs a lot of working up , of course , but far less than an SEC , and I really believe that it would be worth doing . |
| 4 | By the end of the fifties , Washington had agree to help improve the Iranian armed forces more rapidly , but American military aid was still far less than the Shah wanted . |
| 5 | This is somewhat less than France ( 19 per cent ) , Japan ( 21 per cent ) or the Netherlands ( 22 per cent ) and far less than the U.S.A. ( 44 per cent ) , ( DES , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Together their income is £44,000 , more than the Lippitt family and far more than the Belkin family , yet they will only pay a few extra pounds a week in combined tax under Labour . |
| 7 | This meant a huge rise of £1¼ billion in public-sector wage settlements in 1979–80 and drove inflation up far higher than the Callaghan government had ever done previously . |
| 8 | They had been shocked by the dummy , which they thought far worse than the Hayling one . |
| 9 | The refusal this week by Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , to outlaw ‘ gagging clauses ’ in health workers ' contracts raises alarm about the climate of fear in British society that goes far wider than the NHS . |