Example sentences of "[adv] long [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 And eh that just stuck and the joins were alright It just took so long before as well did n't it .
2 So long therefore as the central country of the Bretton Woods system pursued responsible policies , fiscal deficits in a peripheral country such as the United Kingdom generated balance of payments problems for that country , and any government seriously committed to maintaining a fixed exchange rate on the US dollar found its freedom to run such deficits severely curtailed by the commitment .
3 I know that nowadays the congregations at chapels have sadly declined but if the services lasted as long today as they did in my childhood they would be empty altogether .
4 Tree shrews are usually 6–10 in ( 15–25 cm ) in length with a tail as long again as their body .
5 As always , he wrote , painting lags behind literature , which saw the connection as long ago as Poe .
6 The latter , built on the site of a station closed as long ago as 1865 , was wholly funded by the GLC and the Department of Environment 's urban programme grant .
7 As long ago as 1969 a small committee asked to report , from outside the Faculty , on the perennially troubled state of Cambridge English concluded ,
8 But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 .
9 But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 .
10 LIONEL HAMPTON One of the few remaining links with the classic era , Hamp played drums for Louis Armstrong as long ago as 1930 ; later in that decade his pulsating vibes gave Benny Goodman 's great quartet much of its joie de vivre .
11 The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires .
12 The precedent for a Bentley imbued with the genuine bulldog spirit was created as long ago as 1982 by the Mulsanne Turbo , the first red-blooded carriage to roll out of Crewe for decades .
13 As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’
14 As long ago as 1975 , 120 tonnes of porpoise meat was sold annually in Peru .
15 Indeed , as long ago as 1958 the Lambeth Conference of Bishops issued this Resolution :
16 More importantly , as long ago as 1981 the Labour Party itself acknowledged in a major Policy Statement that the SDLP is ‘ a moderate nationalist party with very little support outside of the catholic community , and no trade union affiliation ’ .
17 This is not a party dominated by technocrats who have fearlessly built great industries , but ‘ Increasingly politicians without a great deal of first-hand experience of the world outside politics are running the country , including the economy , in conjunction with civil servants who similarly lack first-hand experience of the world outside politics , ’ Anthony King noted as long ago as 1981 .
18 As long ago as 1980 , he dominated the most potent fast attack in history .
19 As long ago as 1980 , he dominated the most potent fast attack in history .
20 Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way .
21 Scientists at the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) reported that a link might exist as long ago as 1968 .
22 Wortley was closed as long ago as 1955 , but part of it survives as a private residence .
23 As long ago as the late nineteenth century , Robert Elliot in co-operation with James Hunter , the seeds- man , had developed his Clifton Park System of farming , in which the deep-rooting , herbal ley was the cornerstone on which soil structure and fertility were built .
24 As long ago as the seventeenth century worries have been expressed about the inadequacies of official libraries .
25 Coldingham Priory was founded as long ago as 635 AD .
26 As long ago as 1911 Edmund Holmes wrote of schools that were ‘ ridden by the examination incubus ’ , arguing that everyone was cheated by a system whose merit-order and pass-lists were nothing but ‘ outward signs ’ .
27 Fishing was Grimsby 's raison d'être as long ago as the thirteenth century , and it is the oldest chartered ( i.e. granted written rights and privileges by the king ) town in England .
28 From East Ham and Woolwich , upstream through Greenwich , Deptford and Rotherhithe , Isle of Dogs , Limehouse , Wapping and Stepney , the great system of commercial docks begun in the Middle Ages stretches along the Thames where , as long ago as the Roman occupation , the estuary 's great potential was realised .
29 As long ago as 1978 , the Scottish Hospital Advisory Service reported from observation visits to long-stay hospitals throughout Scotland that even when adjustable beds were provided , they were frequently found at a height too high for the patients ' safety and unfortunately , this is often still true .
30 As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’
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