Example sentences of "[conj] not far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not far short of 30 years old , written in social and educational circumstances far different from those that prevail now , and in response to specific problems that no longer have a major place on the agenda for schooling , its basic message remains inspirational . |
| 2 | The Survey makes this point very clearly by showing that not far short of half of all defective items issued ( 42% ) were modern , 20th Century publications , a fact which underlines the danger of assuming that priority should automatically be given to the treatment of older material . |
| 3 | A century ago Scheveningen was a place of painters as much as of fishermen , and not far off the tram route you can still see exactly what the artists saw . |
| 4 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 5 | Most of Britain 's dependent peoples saw the presence of British troops close by , and not far away in the United Kingdom , as the assurance they needed of continuing British protection . |
| 6 | His other nanny lived in a small house on Park Road , close to St Luke 's Hospital and not far from the park where Frankie sometimes played . |
| 7 | It 's conveniently close to the village centre , and not far from the tennis and swimming pool complex . |
| 8 | There are no elevating thoughts about money , all the emotions aroused by it are bad ; pride and miserliness and greed are quickly followed by fear of losing the money , and not far behind is likely to be the emotion of jealously because money is a relative thing and seldom does a rich man not find someone still richer to be jealous of . |
| 9 | You can take a day trip to visit Wanlockhead , the highest village in Scotland , with its Museum of Lead Mining , where you can visit an underground mine gallery , and not far away , Drumlanrig Castle , the magnificent 17th-century home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury . |
| 10 | It is just in the × 7 field with Delta Ceti ( 4.1 ) and not far from 66 Ceti , which is a telescopic double . |
| 11 | A few years before and not far away , the abbey of Quarr , on the Isle of Wight , had been licensed to crenellate its buildings . |
| 12 | Among the trees , and not far from the residence , he pointed out the spire of the little church of which he had spoken . |
| 13 | The best came from Zibello , a village near the po and not far from Fontanellato . |
| 14 | One sees huge deposits , such as the high cliffs of gravel around Embrun in the French Alps , and not far away , the heap of great boulders at Claps de Luc , where half a mountain fell into the valley of the Drome one wet afternoon in 1442 ( plate 5.2 ) . |
| 15 | Another remote country church , near the sea and not far from Turku is that of Inkoo . |
| 16 | It was at the southern end of ‘ the terraces ’ one of the older residential areas of the town , and not far from the Burgers ' . |
| 17 | As landlords ' solicitors become ever wary that they should leave nothing to chance , the number of individual tenant 's covenants appear to be increasing with heavyweight commercial leases quite often having comfortably in excess of 30 covenants and not far short of 50 . |
| 18 | Her name tore through her very soul and not far behind it was Steve 's . |
| 19 | There 's Prince Charles estate at Highgrove house near Tetbury , Princess Anne 's home at Gatcombe Park , and not far away , the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent 's house at Nether Lypiatt . |
| 20 | It is now to be seen in a deserted spot , not actually by the river but not far from it , on high ground by a little-used minor road . |
| 21 | He was not dead , but not far off dead — and 't was said he 'd never be the same again . |
| 22 | As you knit , the needles that are selected to tuck move forward of the needlebed far enough to collect the yarn , but not far enough for the stitch on the needle to go behind the latch and knit off . |
| 23 | That is , they will move forward far enough to collect a loop of yarn ( if we were knitting ) , but not far enough for a stitch to go behind the latch and knit . |
| 24 | ‘ Maastricht went too far for public opinion , but not far enough to allow Europe to deal effectively with the problems it faces , such as Yugoslavia , ’ says an exasperated German official . |
| 25 | Distinctly I heard the pop of gunfire , one , two , three shots , not nearby , but not far away either . |
| 26 | Usually in open country fairly near fresh water , but not far up in hills or in towns ; nests colonially in holes excavated in sand and gravel banks . |
| 27 | When they saw us they pursued us , but not far , for it was growing dusk . |
| 28 | The move was far enough in suggest the future transfer of greater validation responsibility in institutions , but not far enough to suggest the degree of autonomy that many of the polytechnic directors had sought . |
| 29 | My argument is that statecentrism , whether in its directly state-centrist form or in indirect forms , takes us quite far but not far enough . |
| 30 | She 's moved , but not far . |