Sentence examples for far off this week from inspiring English sources

And, while Art Basel Miami Beach takes place in a city where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line, the economic woes besetting much of the world seemed far off this week.

Since 2007 the annual toll of murders by jihadists has never dropped below 2,000 and in 2012 and 2013 it was not far off 4,000.

Even if a bipartisan deal to create a better health care system seems far off today, it's not too soon to start imagining what a future bargain might look like.

We were not that far off today.

Wigan were white hot the last time we played and I don't think they were far off today.

That miracle appears far off today.

Chinese negotiators recently gave a timetable for a peak in the country's emissions, albeit in far-off 2050.

So, rather than the earthbound categories of Japanese, Italian or Peruvian, the food will evoke cloudier concepts: Kyoto in springtime; Palermo in 1949; Hong Kong in far-off 2036.

I was recently reminded of that frozen moment in far-off 1979 when Wayne Rooney appeared in front of the cameras to do his statutory media duty, following an England match earlier this summer.

He wrote of his plans to lead a science trip on the Sound each year, though he hoped that some day, in the then-far-off 1980's, there might be no need.

"I don't think it's that far off, maybe 2030," says Parker.