a far sight

idiom

: a lot

The book is a far sight better than the movie.

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That’s a far sight better than folks who are gambling in speculative and manipulated markets like crypto. —

Michael Foster, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023 Fans of McCarthy’s work will agree that this novel’s villain is a far sight more loquacious than No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh. —

Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 24 Oct. 2022 So the book ends a far sight from where it’s begun, having sloughed off simplistic questions about heredity. —

Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022 That’s still a far sight from the 86% in the comparable week of 2019, but a major improvement over the 32% last year. —

Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021 The challenge faced by Hawke and company is that for white men to prominently place their names on a tale of slavery on Showtime in 2020 is a far sight riskier than for McBride, a Black man, to have spun his yarn in a novel in 2013. —

Carvell Wallace, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020