Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] early as [art] " in BNC.

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1 For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) .
2 The majority of house-holds used ceramic sauce-boats , which had been introduced as early as the 1740s .
3 References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day .
4 The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries .
5 In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century .
6 The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill .
7 Monsters were being created as early as the fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Iran .
8 Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century .
9 Although Cockermouth was leased as early as the thirteenth century , the family 's five Yorkshire manors were still in demesne in 1352 , three of these being leased by 1405 and all by 1416 , while their four Sussex manors were all leased between 1405 and 1416 .
10 While the problem was recognised as early as the 1930s , when institutions and regulations were created to combat it , these have been either ignored altogether or simply not enforced .
11 Tomb finds suggest that this quality was appreciated as early as the Shang dynasty .
12 Although a more general move away from the indigenous Gothic style of architecture and church design only began in earnest a century later after the Restoration , the trend was signalled as early as the 1630s with the construction of St Paul 's , Covent Garden .
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