Example sentences of "far [adv] [conj] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carried by strong winds the rain is capable of travelling hundreds , even thousands of miles , from as far away as the USA to Britain . |
| 2 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 3 | Its influence is felt as far away as the London Underground , which is having its new , networked , interactive time-tabling system , Cart , programmed by a Delhi firm , CMC . |
| 4 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |
| 5 | Lobster-like animals are found as far back as the Triassic , and both crabs and lobsters are frequent and appealing fossils in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks . |
| 6 | Teddy refuses to be drawn on his early life and will only go as far back as the Biggin Hill Air Fair of June this year when Anita and Bob Armstrong ‘ adopted ’ him . |
| 7 | She ranges historically as far back as the Florence of Savonarola 's time in Romola , and geographically she actually encompasses themes such as Judaism in her last novel Daniel Deronda , and that , I think , you know , takes her both chronologically and geographically well beyond Jane Austen 's range of interest . |
| 8 | HAVING watched Carrick Rangers through the years from as far back as the B Division days I feel I must comment on the pathetic lack of support given to the manager by the board . |
| 9 | As far back as the Domesday Survey , records show that there were two mills at Tewkesbury of ‘ twenty shillings ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 . |
| 12 | The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean . |
| 13 | Guests were from major oil companies and other associated gas turbine users from as far afield as the United States and Indonesia . |
| 14 | Groups of morris dancers from as far afield as the Cotswolds and the Borders took to the streets in their colourful costumes for the festival procession through the town centre . |