Example sentences of "far as [noun] [coord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 2 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 3 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |
| 4 | Across Europe , from the war-devastated areas of France and Germany as far as Greece and Italy , from Austria to Hungary , Poland , and Romania , Bischof carried his camera equipment and bundles of warm clothing for those in need , infinitely caring , attentive to all victims , but above all to children . |
| 5 | The group has received donations from well-wishers from as far as Bangor and Holyhead . |
| 6 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 7 | Yek Khans ruled N'pan to the east , and as far as Suristan and Ch'kasia to the west . |
| 8 | It also spreads right through Arabia and the Middle East as far as India and Turkestan . |
| 9 | In 517 a major invasion occurred when Slav horsemen advanced as far as Thermopylae and Epirus . |
| 10 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 11 | They come , he said , from a wide area : from as far as Newcastle and Durham , Stockton , Middlesbrough and Redcar . |
| 12 | Well , the er power stations all round the , Northern Europe are affecting it , as far as Norway and Sweden are concerned , er much of the pollution comes from Eastern Europe er and erm something like ten to twenty per cent comes from the U K as far as Norway is concerned , and five to ten per cent in Sweden . |
| 13 | As far as Halliday and Hasan are concerned , information structure is a feature of spoken rather than written English : |
| 14 | It is not , as far as Beth or Lucy are concerned , about escape from tedium but about using the imagination to come to a provisional understanding of a view of reality . |
| 15 | In each case it seemed clear that local adaptation was taking place , showing — as far as Pearson and Weldon were concerned — that natural selection was an effective evolutionary mechanism . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought we could run up the river as far as Richmond or Kew , ’ he said , changing the subject abruptly . |
| 17 | The following year the Scots penetrated as far as Swaledale and Richmondshire , burning villages and seizing or killing resisters : on this occasion Holme Cultram abbey lost livestock valued at £500 . |
| 18 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 19 | Its lands reached from abbeys in Yorkshire as far as Borrowdale and Eskdale , where its sheep runs extended over the fells . |
| 20 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 21 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |