Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Baden region is well to the south of Germany 's more famous wine areas , and so receives far more sunshine , giving the growers greater flexibility in what kinds of wine they can make . |
| 2 | Despite its unhurried style and careful attention to detail , the firm achieved 170 placements with eleven consultants in 1979 ; now , with thirteen consultants , the firm annually completes far more , but is not necessarily seeking to maximise its volume , and certainly not at the expense of quality of service . |
| 3 | If a number of employees insist on cash payment , an employer can not simply scrap his old cash-payment system , and so gains far less from instituting bank payment than if he can simply switch to bank payment as the general rule . |
| 4 | That balance means the Met generally has far less to worry about , financially , than the British Museum . |
| 5 | And Britain 's state aid for industry generally falls far short of the sums seen in other countries . |
| 6 | Running away brings far more problems than it solves . |
| 7 | With only 26 analysts , mostly banking specialists , it still has far to go . |
| 8 | But recycling still has far to go : Japan , with little land to spare , recycles 40% of its solid waste . |
| 9 | This means much for an institution like the National Gallery which , despite federal funding , still lags far behind the Getty and Kimbell in purchasing power . |
| 10 | Britpop always lags far behind black American pop . |
| 11 | A regular survey carried out by IFO , a research institute , shows that business confidence has slipped slightly in recent months , but it still remains far higher than at any time in the 1980s . |
| 12 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 13 | The new act clearly falls far short of the demand for freedom of information legislation with a presumption that all official information is in the public domain except where there are clearly defined reasons for restricting disclosure and where there is adequate monitoring to ensure that civil servants and politicians are committed to implementing the principles behind the legislation . |
| 14 | Even if this classification scheme could be improved upon , it clearly serves far better than the traditional indicators in identifying those areas most in need of extra resources , in order to compensate for poverty and deprivation , through educational and personal social service provision . |
| 15 | Not only does a story or novel provide a safe distance from the experience but it also enables far deeper knowledge of people than is common in real life . |
| 16 | As my hon. Friend clearly knows far more about the Bill than does the Secretary of State , I am far more likely to get sensible answers out of him . |
| 17 | Craig Walker now has far more than his native Dublin and its age-barred ghetto to examine and write about . |
| 18 | It is clear that the Soviet Union , which now has far more information and greater understanding of Latin America than in the early 1960s , no longer regards the area as a monolithic whole . |
| 19 | One thing is certain : to the head , the manager or education officer in school , the official syllabus often appears far less important than it does to the curriculum committee or the outside observer . |
| 20 | He often draws far into the night , he tells Theo . |
| 21 | If you are nervous , console yourself with the thought that the initially nervous speaker often performs far better than the stolid chap with no nerves . |
| 22 | However , what they get from the service often falls far short of what they need . |
| 23 | A second element of the state system which requires investigation is the administrative one , which now extends far beyond the traditional bureaucracy of the state , and which encompasses a large variety of bodies , often related to particular ministerial departments , or enjoying a greater or lesser degree of autonomy public corporations , central banks , regulatory commissions , etc. and concerned with the management of the economic , social , cultural and other activities in which the state is now directly or indirectly involved . |
| 24 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 25 | Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled . |
| 26 | The action then moves far into the future . |
| 27 | Bramah quotes Grant Richards as having enquired in the Times Literary Supplement , ‘ Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah ? ’ and ( Dame ) E. Rose Macaulay [ q.v. ] as having written in the Nation and Athenaeum , ‘ The crude stilted Conan Doylish English of the detective stories certainly goes far to bear out the common theory that Ernest Bramah has a literary dual personality . ’ |
| 28 | Jones explores each in turn , calling on other metaphors to illustrate his points , but never strays far from mainstream physics . |
| 29 | He never strays far from elegant applications of the theory to field and laboratory studies , many of them his own . |
| 30 | While it never moves far beyond the intro 's initial premise , it 's full of charm , as all Jack Radics records must be . |