Sentence examples for a far piece from inspiring English sources

It is a far piece from Tar Heel to Natchitoches, La., where Ginger Thompson reported on the effort to preserve Magnolia Plantation.

The bad news is that it's a far piece from the center of town; twice, I chose to skip tourist-friendly Main Street and its alluring shops and simply drive to dinner.

"Moratorium doesn't necessarily mean abolition," he continued, "but it's a far piece from where we were in the early 90's, when to be against the death penalty was to be considered outside the American mainstream".

Nor are the two a far piece from Noguchi's playful "Yellow Landscape" (1943), a wall relief of painted bronze whose melted starfish shape is strung with tiny hanging forms and a wayward toothpicklike stick across one of its arms.

It's a far piece, as old-timers in Westerns used to say, from "Easy Rider" (1969) and "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971) to the recent "Road Trip," "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," "The Mexican," "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and the new "Joy Ride," which opened on Friday.

Again, perhaps we're a far piece from being able to do those things, but the programmers at Broderbund had no idea that their software would soon be replaced by real home desktop publishing and printing tools that created a polished and very handsome product in a few seconds.

"I would say it is a far subtler piece of work than people might take it for.

In all these respects Bond bears a more than passing resemblance to his creator, except that Fleming was a far nastier piece of work.

A far lighter piece than "Big Parade," "Bardelys" was based on a best-selling historical romance by Rafael Sabatini set in 17th-century France.

But, as matters stand, the Friends deal looks a far smarter piece of business for Aviva than it did on day one.

But she decided it would be a far better piece if she edited it severely, and so was driven back to it time after time, always seeing how much she could take away.