The phrase "far from extraordinary" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something as being very ordinary or unremarkable. For example: "The taste of the food was far from extraordinary - it was quite plain and unmemorable."
Romney's take on the Palestinian problem is far from extraordinary.
What happened next is horrifying, but far from extraordinary.
The lie is gruesome but far from extraordinary.
In isolation, the inclusion of the 58-year-old Olympic gold medal‑winning showjumper Nick Skelton is far from extraordinary, but seems odd considering the absence from the shortlist of Charlotte Dujardin.
But interest rates are already at exceptionally low levels – and it is far from clear that extraordinary measures, such as quantitative easing and the ECB's outright monetary transactions, are having much impact on the economy.
But even if "Cats" does purr on, it will remain an arriviste compared with Mr. Hull and his fellow performers, who have kept quite a different musical going, far from Broadway, for an extraordinary four decades.
Andrew Solomon, author of the extraordinary Far From The Tree, about parents bringing up children with extreme challenges, recently made the following simple observation: "Raising children is terribly hard work, often thankless and mind-numbing, and yet the most rapturous experience available to adults".
Our life was far from ordinary but hardly extraordinary.
But charm and invention are far from absent, especially in an extraordinary tango-based duet set to Chopin.
That will be just one of many bleak assessments — and far-from-slam-dunk prescriptions — that Mr. Schwarzenegger will proffer as he and nearly every other governor face another year of extraordinary fiscal distress.
But he was never far from his guitar and gave some extraordinary private performances.
