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Example sentences for "how far"

  • How far is our popular education, which we have now enjoyed for two full generations, responsible for this state of mind?

  • How far we are from this, we see when we attempt to make criminal anthropology the basis of criminal legislation.

  • How far he drew his characters from personal acquaintances has often been discussed.

  • How far, in obeying this command, we are to go, we may infer from the admonitions and instructions which James applies to the arrangements and usages of religious assemblies.

  • How far gone is the Church from primitive purity!

  • How far are we now from the Modder River?

  • How far is it from here to the Black River, Swinton?

  • How far shall we have to travel before we fall in with water again?

  • How far it may be permitted to caress the Maid in order to succeed with the Mistress.

  • How far he has succeeded must be decided by the impression made upon the mind of the reader.

  • How far it can be relieved, otherwise than by time, is a subject of important consideration.

  • How far have we come during the last 10 years and how far can we go in the next 10?

  • How far it may be expedient to guard the infancy of this improvement in the distribution of labor by regulations of the commercial tariff is a subject which can not fail to suggest itself to your patriotic reflections.

  • How far they will be deceived, how far we shall be ridiculed, you may judge by the candid account you have got of the state of our affairs.

  • How far it will fulfil your purpose I hope to hear from you; but I cannot flatter you to get so much from the fleet as two hundred, even as hundred tons.

  • This at once raises the much discussed question, how far garden-cultivation has led to the creation of new races?

  • Few will be found to agree as to how far a given resemblance is offset by a given unlikeness, and so long as the question is one of weighing evidence and balancing probabilities, complete harmony is not to be looked for.

  • How far it will furnish justification, extenuation, or palliation of his conduct, when we come to examine that conduct, will be seen.

  • How far do the later Biblical and Babylonian accounts agree?

  • How far am I personally responsible for my neighbor's acts?

  • How far has he conquered the so-called natural forces and learned to utilize them?

  • How far and in what ways may a statesman to-day appeal to the moral and religious feelings of the people in order to promote national and international welfare?

  • How far do these stories, and especially the accounts of the covenant between Jehovah and Abraham, embody the national and spiritual aspirations of the race?

  • How far is a similar change of method possible in the discussion not of industrial and financial processes but of the structure and working of political institutions?

  • How far can he abstract from the facts of man's state qualities in respect of which men are sufficiently comparable to allow of valid political reasoning?

  • How far can it be eliminated or modified by education?

  • How far is a similar change possible in politics?

  • Having done thus far justice to the humanity of Cheynel, it is proper to inquire, how far he deserves blame.

  • Of this notification they profess to think for themselves, how far it shall influence their counsels; and of the necessities alleged, how far they shall endeavour to relieve them.

  • She asked me about my plan of travel, how far I would go in a day, and that sort of thing.

  • How far I really do not know; and I shall be alone except for this good companion.

  • How far do you expect to go on your wheel, and do you travel alone?

  • If military interests had operated alone, without higher moral support, how far short of chivalry would the ideal of knighthood have fallen!

  • Some of those sayings remind us of Christian expostulations and show us how far in practical morality natural religion can approach the revealed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blazing fire; how are; how could; how little; how many; how often; how she; how should; how the; how they; however humble; however little; however much; however slight; however small; however well; life forms; little fire; little troubled; many men; mighty good; only served; pine forest; restore the; said conscience; solid silver