Example sentences of "[verb] by far " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far it is dominated by Far East suppliers , including Sanken , Panasonic and TDK . |
| 2 | Fulke Walwyn , who kept on winning it , has by far the best record but he does not have a runner this year . |
| 3 | That ‘ control ’ was not wisely used : of the 13 countries that The Economist follows each week in our statistical back pages , Sweden has by far the highest inflation , 10.9% . |
| 4 | The most striking feature is that the agriculture sector has by far the biggest proportion of workers over 55 years old . |
| 5 | The Nimbus 6 and 7 weather satellites first carried the improved radiation detectors ( radiometers ) , but the solar Maximum Mission ( SMM ) satellite , designed to study sunspots at their most active , has by far the best radiometer ever launched . |
| 6 | This company is owned by a consortium in which Guinness has by far the largest share ( 70 per cent ) . |
| 7 | The UK , on the other hand , fears that any new arrangement may be a burden on trade ; it has by far the largest share of the Community art market and a liberal export system . |
| 8 | The group classified as inadequately described has an exceptionally good record , but the unoccupied group has by far the worst mortality record of any social group . |
| 9 | It is clear that the founding treaties , and in particular the EEC Treaty which has by far the broadest scope of the three , have established the Communities and the institutions which enable them to operate ; but more than this , they have been held by the European Court to have set up a new legal system separate from those of the Member States . |
| 10 | It has by far the largest number of students of any university in the United Kingdom , with approximately 72,000 undergraduate students in 1990 , almost all studying part-time , plus over 3000 postgraduate students and an estimated 200,000 students taking short continuing education courses . |
| 11 | Statistics for average turn-length alone are liable to mislead , however , and what is likely to be more immediately conspicuous to the reader , is that in a number of scenes Anderson has by far the longest turn : in both scene one and three , for example , Anderson produces turns of over 100 words . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard currently looks by far the best placed of the biggest manufacturers to come out as the winner in the 1990s — but then three or four years ago , that was being said about DEC . |
| 13 | Of course there remains a core of consistency which would normally outweigh by far the fluctuations . |
| 14 | From them , genes can be located which may be carried by far greater numbers . |
| 15 | The Joseph story provided by far the most conspicuous example in Genesis of the outworking of the promise to Abraham that through him and his descendants all the families of the earth would find blessing . |
| 16 | The Rowdies group provided by far the widest range of available roles , and it is with a discussion of these that we start . |
| 17 | Greece , Spain and Portugal appear by far the " cheapest " source of industrial labour within Europe ( at some 25 to 50 per cent of the EC12 average ) . |
| 18 | The first step , transcription , is considered by far the most important . |
| 19 | Rotterdam handles by far the largest proportion of that . |
| 20 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 21 | Local authorities receive by far the largest proportion of their funds via the community charge/council tax . |
| 22 | In the first place it comprised by far the largest number of workers in one industry . |
| 23 | The best made by far was the Ricoll and given a set of decently engraved keytops this would rate very highly as a direct replacement system and is also quite attractively priced . |
| 24 | Below this group came by far the largest and the least known group , the common people of Sussex . |
| 25 | But besides the falls I 've just mentioned there are many more falls and forces like Cotter Force , Catrigg Force and Scaleber Force which , perhaps because they are a little less accessible , are visited by far fewer people , although they are also arguably less impressive because they do n't fall as far or there are n't as many of them . |
| 26 | Against this , the Conservatives were preferred by far greater margins on the issues of defense and prices . |
| 27 | Of these , technology has had by far the greatest impact , by permitting structural changes in internationally linked production systems . |
| 28 | Channon rates his winner highly and said : ‘ She is the best two-year-old I 've had by far . |
| 29 | The exception to this is the police , who have had by far the largest addition to that , they have n't lost money when they lost S S A , erm , we have been ge , extremely generous to them , far more than to any other committee this year , erm , and although we have n't given them money for , to pay awards because we do n't know exactly what it is . |
| 30 | ‘ But I have had by far the better of the deal because the consultancy advice I have had from her has outweighed that ten times over . |