Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [adv] as [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 2 | Some survived , the Dornier Do 217 being broken up as late as 1960 ( what a tragedy ! ) . this remarkable exhibition would surely be a money-spinner today . |
| 3 | Once a Roman colony , Rimini 's history stretches back as far as 268 BC . |
| 4 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 5 | The method of study developed by Leeds can be traced back as early as 1912 in his career ; however the formulation of the theoretical framework was achieved by the prehistorian Gordon Childe who stated that prehistoric archaeology should be ‘ devoted to isolating such cultural groups of peoples , tracing the differentiations , wanderings and interactions ’ ( 1933 p. 417 ) . |
| 6 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 7 | The suspicion that viruses might cause cancer can be traced back as far as 1911 . |
| 8 | I 'll be honest , Benjamin and I scuttled out as quickly as two of the cardinal 's bloody spiders . |
| 9 | The courts seem to take the view that the minimum mark-up is usually in the region of 50 per cent of the hourly rate , and can rise in personal injury cases to 75 per cent in a very big , difficult case , and could go up as far as 100 per cent or more for cases of the greatest difficulty or where quantum is huge and complex . |
| 10 | Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await . |
| 11 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 12 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 13 | Very few registers go back as far as 1538 . |
| 14 | Few of them , however , go back as far as 1880 , though historical reconstruction can often supplement them . |