Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] late as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle 's success is less easy to explain , for as late as the early sixteenth century its main export commodity was wool , although by the reign of Henry VIII it seems to have expanded its trade in coal , iron and lead ( 59 ; 71 ; 75 , p.45 ) . |
| 2 | Although the Scottish Office would not say how far supplies exceeded MACs for lead , at least 17 schemes were in progress to reduce lead in water that would not be completed until as late as 1992 . |
| 3 | Towards the close of the twelfth century the pike was used to counter cavalry charges , and remained in use in various forms until as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 5 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 6 | The first designation of the substantial Agenais family of Durfort as knights , for instance , dates from as late as 1243 . |
| 7 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 8 | Up to as late as 1798 , the district governors lived in the castle . |
| 9 | Offa 's description of Ealdred as ‘ my subregulus , dux , that is , of his own people , the Hwicce ’ ( CS 223 : S 113 ) , which reveals dux becoming an acceptable term for a sub-king , dates to as late as 778 , twenty years after Offa 's accession . |
| 10 | Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it . |