1. This is down from growth in recent years, but a far cry from a hard landing.
2. It's a far cry from Western weddings, where guests are expected to adhere to a formal dress code.
3. It was a far cry from the last time Brawn was in such a position.
4. Hosting the EAG is a far cry from hosting the Asian Games.
5. It is all a far cry from the days when Napoli could sign Diego Maradona from Barcelona in 1984.
6. But sadly, this is a far cry from the situation in Zhongxing township.
7. His call for Palestinian statehood drew the strongest applause but his reception was mostly muted, a far cry from the hero's welcome he received in Israel.
8. It is a far cry from the wholescale simplification of the notoriously complicated script progressively introduced by the Communists shortly after taking power in 1949.
9. It is a far cry from present artificial fertility techniques, where embryos are made in the lab from human eggs and sperm collected from donors.
10. The result of the world conference would be a far cry from any meaningful framework for emission control - in both developing and industrialized countries.