Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] ago as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 2 | The clearances in neighbouring Java started at least as long ago as 4800 BP . |
| 3 | For centuries racing took place on Clifton Ings with the House book of the York Corporation recording that it took place there as long ago as 1530 . |
| 4 | He incurred the wrath of many members of the medical profession when as long ago as 1949 he suggested that patients should be given pamphlets explaining what was wrong with them and what treatment they would be receiving . |
| 5 | One model proposes crustal thickening through large-scale underthrusting by the leading edge of the Indian continent ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) , an idea first put forward as long ago as 1924 by the Swiss geologist , Emile Argand . |
| 6 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |