Example sentences of "even [adv] late as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Leonard also kept white rats and mice — even as late as his thirties , when on the Greek island of Hydra . ) |
| 2 | The nation-wide state publishing organization , Gosizdat , was responsible for the dissemination of official literature of all kinds , but the flow of materials to the provinces remained very weak even as late as 1923 . |
| 3 | In some traditional communities , even as late as the early 1930s , unmarried girls were married off within a month or so after their first menstruation ; until then , they were kept hidden inside their homes . |
| 4 | Thus , in spite of the importance of the pioneering work in rural areas , it was apparent even as late as 1935 that the District had made little substantial and quantifiable impact in its rural counties and among its dispersed population . |
| 5 | Royal armies thus depended upon mercenaries — even as late as the battle of Waterloo in 1815 , over half the army of Napoleon was not French , and half that of Wellington ( excluding the forces of Blücher ) was not English . |
| 6 | After 1638 nearly two-thirds of the Somerset Levels were still unreclaimed , and even as late as 1769 , the local drainage agent , Richard Locke , was stoned , and his effigy was burned ‘ by the owners of geese ’ . |
| 7 | Even as late as 1900 it would not have been safe to walk in any of these streets after dark . |
| 8 | Even as late as the last quarter of the sixteenth century Queen Elizabeth 's chief minister Lord Burghley warned his son to avoid undertaking new enterprises on three particularly ominous anniversaries in the ecclesiastical calendar : the first Monday in April ( the murder of Abel ) , the first Monday in August ( the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , and the last Monday in December ( the birthday of Judas Iscariot ) . |
| 9 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 10 | But even as late as 1861 , it only represented 9 per cent of all architects . |
| 11 | Even as late as 1984 , the Revd Francis Heydon , the then Third Grand Principal of Grand Lodge , gave this interpretation . |
| 12 | Richard Fynes noted that : ‘ The men were sufficiently endowed with natural interest to be observant of the effect of wind upon the ventilation of the mines , and even as late as 1822 , before barometers and thermometers were generally used in the pits to indicate the state of the temperature , if the wind were blowing from the southeast threatening rain , the men refused to work . ’ |
| 13 | Yet of those lines only 10 actually crossed the border into Russian Poland , and even as late as 1918 there was no direct railway link between Poznán and Warsaw . |
| 14 | Even as late as June 1990 , the Zimbabwean President publicly expressed his disbelief at what the ungrateful Romanians had done at Christmas 1989 to his former honoured guests — but then he was still bent on making his country into a one-party state according to the tried and trusted recipe . |
| 15 | Even as late as 1956 a considerable earthquake destroyed half the buildings on the west coast of the island . |
| 16 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
| 17 | Moreover , even as late as 1985 , an unpublished government document reveals , there were 989 children among one day 's population in Indian prisons , on 30 June 1985 . |
| 18 | Twenty-two years earlier , in 1894 , and even as late as the spring of 1911 , the situation could hardly have seemed less promising . |
| 19 | Even as late as the Elizabethan theatre , where we find an owner or lessee in contractual or hiring relations with a company or with individuals , the processes of internal control of the production are obscure . |
| 20 | After the first knowledge of the place , and still after the first meeting with Conchis , even as late as the Foulkes incident , I had wanted to talk about it — and to Alison . |
| 21 | Even as late as 1970 , the official position as set out by the DES was that they would continue to grow slowly to about 130,000 by 1981 , marginally below the Robbins projection of 131,400 for that year . |
| 22 | However , it is noteworthy that even as late as the nineteenth century , the courts were still discussing whether , in the case of a young girl , there was penetration sufficient to constitute rape where the hymen remained intact . |
| 23 | Even as late as 1977 , Lane L.J . |
| 24 | Long after the schism between Anglicanism and the Roman Catholic Church — even as late as 1571 — the forbidden services were still observed in Keswick ( and indeed elsewhere in the north ) . |
| 25 | In the clay land areas , little stone was available for building , and timber remained the main material of houses , even as late as the fifteenth century . |