Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] recently as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are signs of growth , but in case there is a danger of too much optimism , let me remind the reader that as recently as 1978 the Department of Education and Science published a document entitled Primary Education in England in which drama was not mentioned . |
| 2 | A marked change in status has occurred in recent years and is now a regular winter visitor , although as recently as 1953 it was rarer than Whooper Swan . |
| 3 | When comedy work has been thin on the ground , Allen has carved out a healthy career as a straight actor , popping up in the unlikeliest of places : as a minion of fictitious Prime Minister Harry Perkins in A Very British Coup , as an impeccably sleazy reporter in Scandal and most recently as permarandy Rex , the dyspeptic boss of Lyne Electronics in the BBC 's Making Out . |
| 4 | He became an experienced weaver before moving to the warehouse as superintendent in 1973 and more recently as Manager in 1986 . |
| 5 | ALL Royal Bank banknotes carried the arms ( and head ) of George II up until as recently as the early 1960s when there was a general clampdown on indiscriminate use of the Royal Arms and we were told to go and get our own . |
| 6 | The search for better grazing prompted many of the great nomadic outpourings from Central Asia , and as recently as the early 1960s a civil war was fought in what is now Zaire over the control of Katanga 's copper mines . |
| 7 | During the Second World War , trainee fighter pilots used them for target practice , and as recently as 1968 , they were still being hunted for sport . |
| 8 | As early as the 1380s , and as recently as the 1520s , the presence of French troops in Scotland had produced hostility rather than amity . |
| 9 | Until 1861 a man could hang for engaging in homosexual relations , and as recently as the early 1970s many doctors still regarded homosexuality as an illness to be treated by electric shock therapy . |
| 10 | Most Bewick 's Swans are now recorded in wet grasslands or large areas of open water in the interior , although des Forges and Harber record none in the interior before 1940 and as recently as 1961 most were still seen at the coast . |
| 11 | And as recently as 1987 , he returned to South Africa with an Aussie rebel side . |
| 12 | There had been a decade of consultation and as recently as 1986 an Education Act had required local authorities to devise policy documentation in relation to the curriculum and its delivery . |
| 13 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 14 | This new phenomenon was n't quickly recognized in the literature and as recently as 1980 , White and Woods 's edited text ( 1980 ) , The Geographical Impact of Migration , included three lengthy index entries on rural depopulation , rural-rural migration and rural-urban migration , but nothing on rural repopulation or counterurbanization , although there were four index entries for return migration . |
| 15 | But as recently as last month junior health minister Tim Yeo said publicly that self-regulation was the best way of developing the private domiciliary sector . |
| 16 | Rates are a particularly unpopular tax , but as recently as 1983 the government concluded , ‘ they do have advantages . |
| 17 | The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ . |
| 18 | Whereas as recently as 1950 half the world 's ships were built in the UK ( notably in Liverpool , Sunderland , Belfast and Glasgow ) , this role was taken by Japan ( 45.9 per cent in 1985 ) , followed by western Europe ( 21. 8 per cent ) , South Korea ( 11.5 per cent ) and the Soviet Bloc ( 10.0 per cent ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe we have n't been playing as well recently as we did earlier in the season , but we are still getting the results . |