Example sentences of "far [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 2 | It suffices to say that under it , once black Rhodesians had acquired a sizeable number of seats , but far less than a majority , they would have been in a powerful position to form a coalition with any breakaway group of whites . |
| 3 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This and other transformations , rendered in the beautiful Technicolor of the 1940s ( which has faded far less than the colour processes of the 1950s and '60s ) , call on the state-of-the-art technology of the period , which still looks very sophisticated . |
| 6 | Furthermore , positioning of this fragment upstream of the HSV-tk gene promoter stimulates transcription 2–3 times over control values , far less than the activity observed for this fragment in the homologous promoter , indicating that full activity of this fragment requires sequences located in the proximal part of the promoter . |
| 7 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 8 | This argument is meaningful only for lines longer than , say , 40 km as the inherent discrepancy is so slight on shorter distances that the error on the ground is far less than the sizes of marker sites involved . |
| 9 | In practice materials generally only reach a small fraction of their theoretical strength before they break and so the release of strain energy is usually far less than the energy which would be provided by an equivalent weight of explosive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | But the yields on their bonds varied by far less than the ratings would suggest . |
| 13 | The theological implications of such a recognition were profound , and required far more than a change in regulations . |
| 14 | Prayer is far more than a shopping list , or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day . |
| 15 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 16 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 18 | The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy . |
| 19 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 20 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 21 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |
| 22 | This may take some time but patience will be rewarded far more than a loss of temper . |
| 23 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 24 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 25 | A diving whale may store more than 40 per cent of its oxygen intake in its muscles , far more than a human is capable of . |
| 26 | Individual letters mean far more than a signature on a petition . |
| 27 | However , recruitment companies should provide far more than an emergency relief service and should be able to deal with all problematical staff-finding jobs in a diplomatic and professional manner . |
| 28 | AIDS , after all , is far more than an epidemic . |
| 29 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 30 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |