Example sentences of "even [adv] recently as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 2 | Even as recently as Giant ( 1956 ) , Rock Hudson , Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean undermined the later part of the movie by their inability to age convincingly . |
| 3 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 4 | Even as recently as this summer , for old time 's sake , perhaps , one of them was seen hanging round the campsite . |
| 5 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 6 | Even as recently as early 1990 , it seemed unlikely that optical disc-based handhelds would have significant impact in the immediate future . |
| 7 | ‘ In addition , the world oil prices have n't increased as predicted , even as recently as two years ago , and that has also had a negative impact on the decisions taken by the world 's oil producers . |
| 8 | How matters stood , even as recently as 1980 , can be seen in a summary such as this ( Brooksbank 1980:201 ) : Authorities are concerned to delegate powers , as far as is practical and efficient to do so . |
| 9 | Even as recently as the nineteen-seventies , being an umarried mother carried a stigma . ’ |