Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] early as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 2 | Under rule changes which Mr Smith wants implemented as early as the annual conference in October this year , future contests for the leadership and deputy will be decided in a 50:50 division between constituency members and MPs , including members of the European Parliament . |
| 3 | Ekwall ( 1975 ) , citing Walker , notes that [ h ] -loss might have occurred as early as 1791 ; Brunner ( 1963 : 5 ) dismisses early ME spelling evidence with the remark that Anglo-Norman scribes were prone to use initial h ‘ incorrectly ’ . |
| 4 | The car , which could have raced as early as May , will be fully prepared for action with Prost behind the wheel next season . |
| 5 | Norwich will feel they should have scored as early as the second minute . |
| 6 | Catalogues come out early — you may have ordered as early as the Chelsea Flower Show in May — and although you know that the plants will not arrive before the back end of October at the earliest , more likely into November , you will have to plan where the temporary reception centre will be placed . |
| 7 | The intention of this law is in doubt ; the idea that it was specifically directed against Kimon , whose mother was Thracian , fails because Kimon is now thought to have died as early as 451 , too early for the law to have touched him . |
| 8 | In fact , we like nothing better that to get involved as early as possible . |
| 9 | Irvine 's Society of Archers was in existence as late as the 1850s but for some reason unknown the papingo shoot appears to have ended as early as 1721 . |
| 10 | Although the crossbow is known to have existed as early as the fourth century , its main use was as a hunting weapon and it was not until the latter part of the twelfth century that it became a major military weapon . |
| 11 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 12 | Pressure on the government to intervene had come as early as 1952 with the publication of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's Report entitled The Problem of Homosexuality which advocated reform of the law . |
| 13 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 14 | Egyptian stone vases reached Crete before the bronze age began ; the Cretan industry , which had started as early as 2500 BC , nevertheless post-dated the arrival of these foreign vases . |
| 15 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |