Example sentences of "as recently as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although present in Langstone Harbour there are now no beds of Zostera species in either Sussex estuary , although these certainly existed in the early years of this century , and Z. angustifolia was recorded near the Hayling shore of Chichester Harbour as recently as 1963 . |
| 32 | China and Argentina have approximately 30 000 each , though Argentina had only 1000 ha as recently as 1978 . |
| 33 | Road maintenance now takes a quarter of the roads ' budget , compared with roughly 10 per cent as recently as the middle 1970s . |
| 34 | More time should have been given to expert uncertainties and disagreements about the nature of the disease ( reviewed as recently as last October by Solomon Snyder in The Lancet . |
| 35 | Buddleia ( Buddleia davidii ) , a native of China introduced into British gardens as recently as 1890 , dominates the city centre . |
| 36 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 37 | As recently as the mid-1980s , Neil Postman ( 1985 , p.79 ) was writing that ‘ The six-year-old and the sixty-year-old are equally qualified to experience what television has to offer … . |
| 38 | As recently as 1987 I was aware of a situation where a fox killed two ferrets in one burrow , a line ferret and a loose ferret . |
| 39 | Some sources suggest that as much as 4.5% of the Aube was planted with this variety as recently as ten or I 5 years ago . |
| 40 | This was still the situation as recently as the 19405 . |
| 41 | It is almost unknown in Africa and Asia , while in the West , from being relatively rare as recently as the 1920s , it has now become the commonest disorder of the large intestine . |
| 42 | Even as recently as Giant ( 1956 ) , Rock Hudson , Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean undermined the later part of the movie by their inability to age convincingly . |
| 43 | As recently as the second World War , Ruth Tongue quoted a child as saying : |
| 44 | The request , made as recently as last November , when the uproar about Libya 's refusal to hand over its two suspects was at its height , was duly ingored . |
| 45 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 46 | Gradually the Islanders were phased out , the last going to Montserrat as recently as August 1990 . |
| 47 | If any readers want to learn more about MacDonald , I would urge them to read William Raeper 's splendid biography of the great Victorian visionary , published as recently as 1987 , and now in a paperback edition . |
| 48 | Beautifully designed and minted , the silver pieces were used as the preferred exchange in southern Arabia and down the East African coast until as recently as the 1970s . |
| 49 | One tale was told to him as recently as August 1983 . |
| 50 | And as recently as 1987 , he returned to South Africa with an Aussie rebel side . |
| 51 | As recently as 1971 a member of the Black September organization boasted proudly of drinking the blood of the assassinated Wasfi Tal . |
| 52 | Even as recently as this summer , for old time 's sake , perhaps , one of them was seen hanging round the campsite . |
| 53 | Water that was clear and alive with wildlife as recently as the late 1940s is now murky and almost lifeless . |
| 54 | Remnants of the colliery buildings have been left as a reminder of the coal mining industry — Kinneil colliery closed as recently as 1981 . |
| 55 | And yet when justifying the shedding of the Buckfastleigh line as recently as 1990 , the DVR Company 's General Manager publicly claimed the original Dart Valley line was uneconomic ; losing £100,000 a year , and a financial drain on the Torbay line 's profitability ! |
| 56 | As recently as April 29 at Olivetti 's annual meeting , De Benedetti said , ‘ Olivetti has never provided financing to political parties or associated entities . |
| 57 | Even at that point such meetings were touched by the rumbling fear of the authorities of political disorder ; after all , as recently as 1779–80 such a hallowed institution as the county meeting had provided the basis for a powerful , though short-lived , movement for political reform under Wyvill 's leadership . |
| 58 | As recently as thirty years ago my basic equipment consisted of iron desks with attached iron seats ( the whole unit bolted to the floor to discourage movement ) a blackboard and a teacher 's desk . |
| 59 | As recently as 1949 some 36% of children of secondary age were sharing school buildings with children of primary age . |
| 60 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |