Example sentences of "[adv] as [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes as long as six or seven years and colossal sums of money ( some estimates suggest in excess of £10 million ) to put a new compound on the market . |
| 2 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 3 | As soon as one or more candidates were judged plausible , processing of that anaphor was suspended . |
| 4 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 5 | Milk was brought to Manchester by train as early as 1844 and to London by 1845 . |
| 6 | But any time between eleven and fourteen is ‘ normal ’ , although some girls may start as early as nine or ten or as late as fifteen or sixteen . |
| 7 | Albrecht Dürer designed them as early as 1500 or before . |
| 8 | Close relations were also maintained with Syria ( which concluded a friendship treaty with the USSR in 1980 ) , and with India , which signed a friendship treaty as early as 1971 and which remained one of the closest of the USSR 's non-communist allies under Indira Gandhi and her successor Rajiv . |
| 9 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 10 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 11 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 12 | Children repair what they themselves say from as early as one or one-and-a-half years of age . |
| 13 | The earliest place of worship would appear to have been the chantry , constructed , it is said , as early as 1332 and rumoured to have had a secret passage running to Mere House . |
| 14 | As early as 1660 or 1661 he was in contact with Adam Boreel , the continental Christian Hebraist of the circle dominated by John Dury and Samuel Hartlib [ qq.v. ] , who commissioned him to translate the Mishnah , the Hebrew part of the Talmud , into Spanish . |
| 15 | The rhythm method had been approved by Catholic clergymen on the Birth-rate Commission as early as 1913 and in the 1930 Encyclical Casti Connubii . |
| 16 | Drawn from stock and private sources , including the artist 's family , it comprises landscapes , nudes and flower pictures , and features both a view of a village church painted as early as 1924 and the final picture completed by Hitchens shortly before his death in 1979 . |
| 17 | The perceptive Boris Chicherin spotted as early as 1858 that The Bell was " better at throwing government and society into confusion than at suggesting the precise path they should follow " . |
| 18 | The first two are represented in Attaingnant 's collections — Clemens , it is true , by an anonymous and doubtfully authentic piece — as early as 1529 and by a trickle of songs during the next decade . |
| 19 | ‘ This could occur as early as 1995 and the years 1996 — 2000 should represent profitable opportunities . |
| 20 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 21 | Mary Alston , arguing the case for a pay rise , pointed out in a speech as early as 1922 that It may be that prior to 1914 , women were employed in book composing only , but we must not forget the introduction of monotypes diverted hand labour to other channels correcting , making up and so forth , and in every large office today , not to speak of the small ones , we find women compositors setting , making up , doing author 's corrections and in some offices making ready for machine . |
| 22 | The Mulberry idea was first suggested as early as 1942 and Naval parties made repeated night crossings to take soundings and measurements from which charts were prepared for various landing sites . |
| 23 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 24 | Prince Charles declared as early as 1969 that his choice of bride would not be easy . |
| 25 | The National Bank was built as early as 1830 and in JTR 's time there was a comparable expansion of its administrative function just as today with all branches of government represented within a hand 's throw of the Square . |
| 26 | We know that Monotypes had been introduced to R. & R. Clark 's , as early as 1901 or 1902 . |
| 27 | The average age for the menopause to occur is 50 — in some women it can start as early as 35 and in others as late as 60 . |
| 28 | The average age for the menopause to occur is 50 — in some women it can start as early as 35 and in others as late as 60 . |
| 29 | Horse races on the sands of Leith have been recorded as early as 1504 but were not properly organized until 1665 , when the town council took charge . |
| 30 | Blackwell was an ensign in the City 's horse militia as early as 1642 and a cornet in the parliamentary army by 1644 ; in 1645 he became a captain in Oliver Cromwell 's own cavalry regiment , in which he served until June 1648 . |