Example sentences of "as [adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was as long ago as 8 May 1991 , but nothing has been done . |
| 2 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 3 | Underpinning these changes there has been an acceleration in the trend towards the ‘ professionalisation ’ of journalism , a tendency noted as long ago as 1976 by Graham Cleverly in The Fleet Street Disaster : higher salaries ( at least on the nationals ) , fewer unsociable hours , less bloke-ishness and booze . |
| 4 | As long ago as 1908 , E. B. Huey pointed out the difficulties for readers caused by the style of the written English of his own day . |
| 5 | As long ago as 1869 , W. S. Jevons prepared a memorandum for the British Treasury , estimating that the tax rate was 10.1 per cent for a family with expenditure of 40 per annum compared with 9.0 per cent for a family with 500 ( Roseveare , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | As long ago as 1750 , Lord Hardwicke L.C. declared that it would be ‘ very mischievous ’ to seek to make one who was ‘ merely a witness ’ a party in order to obtain discovery ; even if he were properly examinable as a witness , his evidence could not be gathered in advance in this way . |
| 7 | As long ago as 1750 , some astronomers were suggesting that the appearance of the Milky Way could be explained if most of the visible stars lie in a single dislike configuration , one example of what we now call a spiral galaxy . |
| 8 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 9 | As long ago as 1986 , the BBC launched their Domesday Project to coincide with the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book , compiled following the Norman invasion of Britain . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As long ago as 1919 , the adverts said : |
| 12 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 13 | Pass a ray of sunlight through a glass prism ( as Isaac Newton did , as long ago as 1666 ) , and you will find that it is spread out into a rainbow band of colours , with red at one end and violet at the other . |
| 14 | Plumb announced a ‘ crisis in the humanities ’ as long ago as 1964 . |
| 15 | It was the issue that first brought me into active politics as long ago as 1964 . |
| 16 | I first drew attention to the shortcomings of this edition in 1981 I was not the first to suspect it : as long ago as 1964 Sir Charles Mackerras , in preparing Castor et Pollux for a BBC broadcast , became suspicious of some of the scoring , went over to Paris to inspect the sources for himself , and made some extensive last-minute changes . |
| 17 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In an effort to separate as far as possible the discussion of equity from the discussion of efficiency , modern welfare economics uses the idea of Pareto-efficiency named after the economist Vilfredo Pareto whose Manuel D'Economie Politique was published as long ago as 1909 . |
| 20 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ . |
| 22 | As long ago as 1925 , when the American Victor company was trying to decide whether to use the Western Electric recording system , Victor executives complained that ‘ it did n't sound like a phonograph ’ . |
| 23 | Hawkhill Recreation Ground which was used for recreational purposes as long ago as 17th century ; |
| 24 | It was , after all , as long ago as 1899 that John Dewey enunciated the principle of his ‘ Copernican revolution ’ in education whereby , just as ‘ the astronomical centre shifted from the earth to the sun ’ , so ‘ In this case the child becomes the sun about which the appliances of education revolve ; he is the centre about which they are organised . ’ |
| 25 | Ah , was it as long ago as that ? |
| 26 | Animals have been anthropomorphised since as long ago as Egyptian times . ’ |
| 27 | The first of these attempts to describe the canopy by means of differential equations , and is called the Kubelka-Munk type , after a paper written by P. Kubelka and F. Munk as long ago as 1931 . |
| 28 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |
| 29 | And we know from micro-fossils that there were already several distinct forms of bacteria-like organisms as long ago as 3000 million years . |
| 30 | As long ago as 1973 , Lancaster pointed out that : ‘ a critical factor affecting the success or failure of an online information retrieval system is the effectiveness of the procedures employed to teach people how to use the facilities ’ . |