Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] ago as " in BNC.
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1 | in Z. Otherwise such pedantry relating to Z was left behind as long ago as 1.2.5 . |
2 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
3 | It has been a principle championed in the fiction of Kingsley Amis , from as long ago as Luck Jim , that ‘ nice things are nicer than nasty things . ’ |
4 | But , again , we must beware the limits of anecdotal evidence ; several of Ryder 's examples are from the 1930s and 1940s ( and one from as long ago as 1909 ) and would breach today 's legal standards . |
5 | For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century . |
6 | In particular , Chandra Talpade Mohanty 's essay seems odd , devoted as it is to a detailed comparison of essays from as long ago as 1981 and 1984 , in which she takes issue with Robin Morgan 's universalist feminism . |
7 | Animals have been anthropomorphised since as long ago as Egyptian times . ’ |