Example sentences of "as [adv] as [num] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 2 | As early as 1897 he had written A Madonna of the Music Halls . |
| 3 | Derain , although as early as 1904 he had executed a still life in which he seized in a more or less superficial way on some of the aspects of Cézanne 's art which were later to fascinate and influence the Cubists , did not begin to look at Cézanne really seriously until 1906 . |
| 4 | The business Simpson acquired was charming , but a financial shambles ; as late as 1986 it had lost £1 million on sales of £3 million . |
| 5 | Although Duke had dismissed his past association with the racist Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups as a " youthful indiscretion " , as recently as 1988 he had contested the presidential elections as the nominee of the Populist Party — a known repository of neo-Nazis and former Klansmen — on an openly racist and anti-Semitic platform . |