Example sentences of "far [adv] as [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the large size is really a relatively it it 's a smaller percentage of the market so we 've had to price it as far down as we can that 's why our contribution for the large size is not as large as the Erm the overhead the sorry the capital costs erm will be a total of two hundred and ninety thousand which is two hundred for factory extensions , eighty thousand for plant and ten perc ten thousand for the gasser . |
| 2 | Let's get as far away as we can . ’ |
| 3 | On a recent visit to Brooks Brothers , we tried to buy two identical shirts in a style that the store has stocked as far back as we can remember . |
| 4 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
| 5 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 6 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother sang — and music was the most important thing in my life , from as far back as I can remember . |
| 8 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 9 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 10 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |
| 11 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My mother 's knitted for all of us as far back as I can remember , but she acknowledged defeat on this one . ’ |
| 13 | On a piece of paper draw a line or pictures , or allocate areas of the page , to mark significant events in your life as far back as you can recall . |
| 14 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |
| 15 | For your professional purposes , and mine as a politician , we have to keep them as far apart as we can — providing of course that my analysis is sound . |