Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] ago as " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 2 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 3 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 4 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 5 | Here , in the suburbs of the Metropolis , members of the extended family whose ancestors had parted company down in Wiltshire as long ago as the late 16th century found neighbouring resting places . |
| 6 | Hawkhill Recreation Ground which was used for recreational purposes as long ago as 17th century ; |
| 7 | Fair Isle first came into prominence as a bird migration station as long ago as 1912 , following publication of a book by William Eagle-Clarke , keeper of the natural history department of the Royal Scottish Museum . |
| 8 | Man may have reached coastal New Guinea as long ago as 50 000 BP and penetrated to the Highlands there by 26 000 BP . |
| 9 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 10 | Hungary started to introduce market-oriented reforms as long ago as 1968 and , after a period of retreat in the 1970s , renewed this reform process in the 1980s . |
| 11 | he made his debut as long ago as 1985 ; then came Cambridge , and intermittent promise back at Cardiff and Swansea . |
| 12 | The first of these attempts to describe the canopy by means of differential equations , and is called the Kubelka-Munk type , after a paper written by P. Kubelka and F. Munk as long ago as 1931 . |
| 13 | British Industry and European Law emerged from addresses and discussions of a conference held at Brunel University as long ago as November 1972 . |
| 14 | The times they are a-changing , however , and the Church is doing no more than facing up to the inevitable , as did the Anglicans as long ago as 1968 . |
| 15 | The Egyptians used the technique as long ago as 2,000 B.C. |
| 16 | LIONEL HAMPTON One of the few remaining links with the classic era , Hamp played drums for Louis Armstrong as long ago as 1930 ; later in that decade his pulsating vibes gave Benny Goodman 's great quartet much of its joie de vivre . |
| 17 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |
| 18 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 19 | Food irradiation was approved in the US for some uses as long ago as 1963 . |
| 20 | He last tasted success as long ago as last January in the Asian Open . |
| 21 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 22 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 23 | Speculation that Sir Terence Conran might have been drafted into the job was inaccurate , and he had , in fact , ruled himself out of consideration as long ago as January . |
| 24 | The Scottish Office commissioned John Grimshaw 's report on long-distance cycle routes as long ago as 1983 , but has failed to implement the proposals in it . |
| 25 | At one time it was thought that this was because the dunnock was a recent cuckoo host , but Chaucer 's reference in The Parlement of Foules makes it clear that the dunnock was a popular cuckoo host as long ago as the 14th century . |
| 26 | Eurasia removed much of the Neotropical megafauna of the Pleistocene , but if humans were there in significant numbers as long ago as recent evidence suggests , then it is difficult to explain away the collapse of that fauna . |
| 27 | A report as long ago as 1975 found that more than two-thirds of Yorkshire 's water mains needed replacing , mainly because of corrosion . |
| 28 | And we know from micro-fossils that there were already several distinct forms of bacteria-like organisms as long ago as 3000 million years . |
| 29 | It was the third variable star to be identified , by Kirch as long ago as 1686 . |
| 30 | When a report on its activities last appeared in ACCOUNTANCY as long ago as December 1983 , the committee formed part of the Institute 's Professional Conduct Department , providing it with a means of reacting to complaints of a technical nature without invoking the full panoply of investigatory and disciplinary procedures . |