in so far
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6.0
- idiom
:
en la medida en que
- A project is successful only in so far as it meets the needs of its users.
They're not really what we are in so far as we're thinking substances.
- They're not really what we are in so far as we're thinking substances.
- So he says it's misused in so far as it clings to the way of the world.
- You know, in so far as the sovereign being has produced me.
- So those we know are valid statements in so far as they go.
- Sure that fixes the problem in so far as working around it, but it makes everything louder too.
- I'm a big fan and in so far as the FCTA, you know, supposedly that's the goal, then of course I rejoice.
- So this is a perfect hell in so far as that's possible.
- So I think it's good to get rid of it in so far as we are getting rid of it in the West.
- Children of emotionally immature parents may feel abandoned in so far as their parent wasn't a parent.
- And so I think things can bring you joy only in so far as they enhance your relationship with other people.
- And that's I spent, you know, in so far as I think about this issue, I think much more about next time than this time.
- But I do think what they say publicly, in so far as I've consumed any of that stuff, it does seem to me they're working.
- But most people are operating under the assumption that eating saturated fat is bad and you only do it in so far as you want to taste it.
- It's it's ludicrous in so far as it's power efficiency.
Examples
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And so I think things can bring you joy only in so far as they enhance your relationship with other people.
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It's, it looks like a guess, at least in so far as we can tell from the outside.
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So I think it's good to get rid of it in so far as we are getting rid of it in the West.
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Financial processes are good in so far as they help people or they help help businesses.
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So those we know are valid statements in so far as they go.
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No benefits taking place now are doing any good in so far as protecting or celebrating our freedom.
Blog text (32) -
But again, the same point can be made that science is only good or useful in so far as we are ignorant, right?
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While an exercise of "bad history," the account is successful in so far as it serves its autobiographical purpose.
Academic text (2017) -
Islam was a dimension of the revolution in so far as the majority of the people involved in it were culturally Muslims.
Academic text (1998) -
Children of emotionally immature parents may feel abandoned in so far as their parent wasn't a parent.
Synonyms
98
3.5
As much as something is true or known
35
6.7
To the extent that something is true or happens
14
3.9
As much as someone says or suggests
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3.9
It applies at the level already mentioned
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9.2
So much that something happens
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase rests on the idea of degree (so/far) combined with the preposition 'in', so there is a compositional cue to 'extent'. However, the fixed formal connector 'in so far (as)' has a specific discourse function ('to the extent that') that is not fully predictable from the individual literal meanings and often requires prior exposure, so a B1 learner who only knows the words may not reliably infer the intended sense.
Etymology
In so far comes from joining the words in, so, far, where 'so far' once meant 'up to this point'. Imagine a mark that shows how far something reaches; what is true only inside that mark is true in so far, so the phrase now means 'to the degree or extent that'.