Example sentences of "as recently as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 2 | The most telling one , from the point of view of this study , was found only as recently as 1893 in the Brestimont Collection . |
| 3 | THE Michael Knighton Story , already sold to a tabloid , began publicly as recently as 18 August when it became known that he was buying the controlling interest in Manchester United from Martin Edwards . |
| 4 | As recently as two weeks ago sources close to Mr Parkinson ruled out changing the route at this late stage , saying it would revive uncertainty , antagonise people who had escaped the BR route , and cause an unacceptable delay to legislation . |
| 5 | As recently as last year , Anderson was asked by the Ugandan government to advise on the restructuring of the civil service there , following the turmoil of recent years . |
| 6 | Initial documents were sent to Dublin from Britain in January , but Mr Barnes has since revealed that more documents were supplied by London as recently as July . |
| 7 | As recently as last July , when President Gorbachev addressed the Council of Europe , the Soviet leader assumed that socialism could be preserved throughout Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | Grants to commuter services in the South are to be abolished by 1992/93 , having run at over £300million a year as recently as 1985/86 . |
| 9 | The search for better grazing prompted many of the great nomadic outpourings from Central Asia , and as recently as the early 1960s a civil war was fought in what is now Zaire over the control of Katanga 's copper mines . |
| 10 | is the traditional cheese of Wales , although it was first made as recently as the 1880s . |
| 11 | During the Second World War , trainee fighter pilots used them for target practice , and as recently as 1968 , they were still being hunted for sport . |
| 12 | Inexperienced as well as black , he would have stood no chance of a studio contract as recently as five years ago . |
| 13 | As early as the 1380s , and as recently as the 1520s , the presence of French troops in Scotland had produced hostility rather than amity . |
| 14 | Until 1861 a man could hang for engaging in homosexual relations , and as recently as the early 1970s many doctors still regarded homosexuality as an illness to be treated by electric shock therapy . |
| 15 | Tarmac , which made profits of £377 million as recently as 1989 , is expected to announce a plunge to just £30 million this month and the betting is that it too will slash the dividend . |
| 16 | As recently as 1980 Cash became addicted to morphine after an operation to crushed ribs sustained in a fight with an ostrich ( his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee , is said to be a real menagerie ) . |
| 17 | The Conservatives ' advantage over Labour in the post-election survey is nearly double what it was in 1964 and treble what it was as recently as on Tuesday and Wednesday last week : 1964Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Now Conservatives ' best 45 45 43 44 45 52 Labour best 34 37 38 38 38 31 Con advantage+11 +8 +5 +6 +7+21 While the Tories were triumphing on the issues , they were also triumphing on the matter of personal leadership . |
| 18 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 19 | There are signs of growth , but in case there is a danger of too much optimism , let me remind the reader that as recently as 1978 the Department of Education and Science published a document entitled Primary Education in England in which drama was not mentioned . |
| 20 | There are rumours that the mill was used as recently as 1923 , although no records confirm this , and the mill race was filled in by 1958 . |
| 21 | As recently as the 1980s screams have been heard near the church at Cumnor . |
| 22 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 23 | As recently as the late 1950s when Pasolini wrote his two novels of , and largely in , the language of the Roman slums , at least part of his purpose was to stun his reader into recognition of a hidden social reality . |
| 24 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 25 | As recently as 1978 , the Court of Appeal was emphatic that ‘ police officers can only arrest for offences ’ . |
| 26 | As recently as January that year , the people of North Devon had been ‘ greatly alarmed ’ by three French frigates and a lugger seen making their way up the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe . |
| 27 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 28 | As recently as 1952 the British Decca Company was advertising Gilbert and Sullivan in ‘ complete long-playing recordings by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ’ . |
| 29 | A marked change in status has occurred in recent years and is now a regular winter visitor , although as recently as 1953 it was rarer than Whooper Swan . |
| 30 | Most Bewick 's Swans are now recorded in wet grasslands or large areas of open water in the interior , although des Forges and Harber record none in the interior before 1940 and as recently as 1961 most were still seen at the coast . |