Example sentences of "[adv] as early as " in BNC.
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1 | Namibia 's more than 700,000 residents are voting for a 72-member constituent assembly to draw up an independence constitution and prepare the way for full independence next year , perhaps as early as April . |
2 | Better-than-expected trade figures and increasing optimism that UK interest rates may start to fall from their current 15 per cent level , perhaps as early as next spring , helped fuel a 23.9 point rise in the index to 2,422.7 — within four points of the year 's high of 2,426 established just before the mini-crash in October and within hailing distance of the all-time high of 2,443.4 , established on July 16 , 1987 . |
3 | As we have seen , it appears that , despite his own obsessions , Hitler was politically aware from an early date — perhaps as early as 1923 — that a wider currency than anti-Semitism was needed to distinguish the NSDAP from the purely sectarian politics of other völkisch groups , to extend the Party 's appeal , and to make a serious bid for power . |
4 | Many professionals wish they had been given more detailed and honest feedback far sooner , perhaps as early as the SSI/RHA 's initial monitoring . |
5 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
6 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
7 | At a meeting in mid-September , the government indicated that if IFAW were able to increase income from international ecotourism involving the seals and if it were willing to provide for independent assistance with additional research on the interactions between Cape fur seals and fisheries , it too would be willing to consider announcing a moratorium on the killing of seals , perhaps as early as 1 January 1992 . |
8 | His earliest patron was Hubert Walter , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , a fellow native of West Dereham and founder there of a Premonstratensian abbey whose charters are witnessed by Master Elias , perhaps as early as 1188 . |
9 | Around the time of engraving ( late 1738 ) Bach undertook a large-scale expansion of the L scheme , adding the E♭ prelude and fugue ( themselves composed perhaps as early as 1735 ) and the manual catechism preludes . |
10 | On the assumption that the account of this event in Molla Husrev 's life is at least broadly correct , however , and in the light of the documentary and such other evidence as exists , it would appear that he left for Bursa not earlier than Rajab 876 nor later than Shawwal 877 and returned to become Mufti perhaps as early as 878/1473–4 . |
11 | The SNC would occupy Cambodia 's UN seat , perhaps as early as the next UN General Assembly in September . |
12 | It is unfortunate that the confirmation of Æthelric of Bocking 's will , with its reference to a plan to receive him in Essex perhaps as early as 991 , gives no further details . |
13 | Already as early as 1436 the word had lost its original connotation of nobleman , and been extended to cover merchants and yeomen who had got rich , together with some landowners of as little as £5 a year claiming the title . |
14 | Thus as early as 1915 , " Juvenus " writing in the Scottish Typographical Journal reported that there were " many girls out of work who went to the GPO for Christmas work " ( i.e. Christmas 1914 ) . |
15 | Last year 's festival was so successful that arts centre staff had to turn people away as early as 8.15pm . |
16 | He left home as early as possible , did well in his career and visited his parents as seldom as possible . |
17 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
18 | The government 's interim report on the SII talks , expected in April , will now say that the store law should be scrapped , possibly as early as 1992 . |
19 | Commerce was the raison d'être of the Old Town and possibly as early as the 10C it embraced a huge mix of nationalities . |
20 | There is evidence to suggest that they had indeed been introduced before this to some offices — possibly as early as before Christmas 1872 — but it is clear from the strike committee minutes that they were not regarded by the union as a threat of any significance compared with that of outside labour . |
21 | Yonhap quoted an official as saying North Korea had accepted a US proposal to meet again in Beijing , possibly as early as next week , and a senior Seoul government source told Reuters the talks were to be held after after a current US-South Korean military exercise , Team Spirit , ended . |
22 | Britain became involved with cable early on , the first worthwhile trial being that ‘ … carried out in 1838 by Brooke , an Englishman , across the river Hoohley in India ’ .3 Even as early as 1840 a House of Commons committee had looked into the possibility of connecting Dover with Calais . |
23 | All this , plus the commissioning of party-political broadcasts and advertising , is designed to have the Tories ready for a fight whenever Mr Major chooses — even as early as May . |
24 | But even as early as St John 's Gospel ( undated but often hypothetically dated late in the first century — it can not be later ) the ‘ incarnation ’ implies a manifestation within time and history of the eternal Word of God . |
25 | Yet in France , even as early as the Janaury draw for the challengers ' trials , the event was screened nationally — and special television walls were installed in Tokyo stations to carry pictures in Japan . |
26 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
27 | Even as early as 1919 scientists warned of the dangers of an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations . |
28 | It was hot , even as early as this . |
29 | He claims that he was a little pedant , even as early as the age of five . |
30 | The first loop , or sideways circle will be erratic and recovery somewhat haphazard : but just as with riding a bicycle , all the reactions begin to come naturally and in no time at all , even as early as the third flight , you will be diving and climbing at will . |