Example sentences of "early [conj] [num] [art] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As early as 1884 the Xhosa editor John Tengu Jabavu launched Imvo Zaba Ntsundu ( ‘ Native Opinion ’ ) , which campaigned for African political rights . |
2 | As early as 1957 the ITV adaptation of The Woman in White included oblique references to lesbianism , and in 1961 both male homosexuality ( in ITV 's ‘ The Collection ’ ) and butch lesbianism ( in BBC 's ‘ A ’ For Andromeda ’ ) appeared on screen . |
3 | According to the sex researcher , Havelock Ellis , ‘ … as early as 1476 a London priest appeared before the Ecclesiastical Court charged with showing his privates to several women in the parish … |
4 | As early as 1788 the Marylebone Cricket Club revised the laws of the game , thus taking over the role of the celebrated Hambledon Club . |
5 | In the United States , as early as 1867 a Connecticut landscape architect , Donald G. Mitchell , was arguing the case for the railroad companies to plant station gardens to advertise both the train service and the town it served . |