Example sentences of "least [adv] far [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Burma is not a rich country the potential for racketeering is limited , and shrugged off , For those Burmese who want one foot in the material world , at least so far as the occasional bottle of Scotch is concerned , the black market exists . |
| 2 | The Secretary of State has in mind using the Records of Achievement as the repository of pupil achievements in the tests and assessments at age 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 — at least so far as the sole mandatory requirements are concerned . |
| 3 | At the moment it is still a new and unproven product but it could well represent the next generation of TechDoc software , at least so far as the corporate publisher is concerned . |
| 4 | The more I thought about it , the more I looked forward to seeing this little known mountainous region , and I had every intention of penetrating at least as far as the Webi Shebeli river . |
| 5 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 6 | The HWIM system initially took a bottom-up , data-driven approach , at least as far as the lexical level , but encountered serious problems in matching the phonetic input to the stored lexical representations . |
| 7 | One of the bearded pig 's most endearing habits — at least as far as the human inhabitants of its native Borneo are concerned — is its tendency , in the occasional year , to form huge herds and plunge lemming-like through the rainforest in a desperate craving for a certain food item ( a kind of acorn , it is thought ) , whose supply fluctuates . |
| 8 | Once again , an initially English impulse of research has proposed and substantially validated an a cappella approach which seems to offer one kind of solution to this problem , but while the evidence for such an approach now seems to be strong it is important to clarify what has taken place , at least as far as the secular polyphonic song repertories of the Middle Ages are concerned . |
| 9 | This was clearly a wild exaggeration , but it showed , at least as far as the large Catholic minority of Belorussia was concerned , that any attempt to base nationalism on Catholic separatism would be doomed to failure . |