Far North
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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However, more than 230 flood alerts are scattered across much of England apart from the far north and East Anglia.
From BBC
At the high end, the bank said, SpaceX could be valued at as much as $1.26 trillion, far north of the $800 billion valuation it targeted as part of a recent secondary stock sale.
Christopher did not know if they saw very few strangers so far north, or if there was something in Mal that made them uneasy.
From Literature
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The UK tested the technology at Dounreay, in the far north of the Highlands, and became a world leader, building the first ever nuclear power stations - with Chapel Cross in Dumfriesshire among the first wave - in 1959.
From BBC
"Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, so the apparent absence of Paranthropus was conspicuous and puzzling to paleoanthropologists, many of whom had concluded the genus simply never ventured that far north."
From Science Daily
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