Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] as [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 2 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 3 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 4 | Blackwell was an ensign in the City 's horse militia as early as 1642 and a cornet in the parliamentary army by 1644 ; in 1645 he became a captain in Oliver Cromwell 's own cavalry regiment , in which he served until June 1648 . |
| 5 | Some sources suggest that as much as 4.5% of the Aube was planted with this variety as recently as ten or I 5 years ago . |
| 6 | The rhythm method had been approved by Catholic clergymen on the Birth-rate Commission as early as 1913 and in the 1930 Encyclical Casti Connubii . |
| 7 | Milk was brought to Manchester by train as early as 1844 and to London by 1845 . |
| 8 | Close relations were also maintained with Syria ( which concluded a friendship treaty with the USSR in 1980 ) , and with India , which signed a friendship treaty as early as 1971 and which remained one of the closest of the USSR 's non-communist allies under Indira Gandhi and her successor Rajiv . |
| 9 | In Barrow each house had a water tap by the 1880s , but in Lancaster 475 houses shared a single tap as late as 1925 and in Manchester in 1931 there were 70,000 houses classified as ‘ unfit ’ with thirty to fifty people sharing a tap in a tenement building . |
| 10 | Mary Alston , arguing the case for a pay rise , pointed out in a speech as early as 1922 that It may be that prior to 1914 , women were employed in book composing only , but we must not forget the introduction of monotypes diverted hand labour to other channels correcting , making up and so forth , and in every large office today , not to speak of the small ones , we find women compositors setting , making up , doing author 's corrections and in some offices making ready for machine . |