Example sentences of "as [adv] back as " in BNC.
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| 1 | FitzGerald had been determined as far back as 1964 ( 1964 ; 1972 ) to make constitutional changes to those articles which appeared to alienate Northern protestant opinion . |
| 2 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 3 | RAF Swinderby was ‘ contractorised ’ as far back as the 1960s because the ending of National Service led to a shortage of cooks and stewards and now ther are probably about a score of units which work a mainly 9–5 day , or where the numbers are fairly small , that may be most suitable for ‘ contractorising ’ . |
| 4 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 5 | As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished . |
| 6 | As far back as 700 BC Hesiod was wary of it : ‘ Gossip is mischievous , light and easy to raise , but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of . ’ |
| 7 | The smaller British fund had been licensed to operate by the DTI since 1985 and it had known about the business as far back as 1975 . |
| 8 | Scientific study of whales and dolphins began as far back as the fourth century BC , when the Greek philosopher Aristotle observed and experimented with live animals . |
| 9 | ‘ Ideas ’ have played a part in philosophy at least as far back as Plato , for whom they had a reality of their own quite apart from any relation they might have to our minds . |
| 10 | But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away . |
| 11 | This copy by Thomas Hamilton of the Temple of Theseus in Athens , which is one of the finest classical buildings in Edinburgh , was designated as the home of a Scottish assembly as far back as the late Seventies . |
| 12 | The Quarter can trace its roots as far back as 1460 , when work in precious metals is first recorded in Birmingham . |
| 13 | As far back as 1919 Hugo Koch , a Dutchman , envisaged an electrically-impulsed encoding machine . |
| 14 | The roots of German economic unification lie as far back as 1818 , when Prussia unified her own tariff system . |
| 15 | Nummulites are a giant kind of foraminiferan , an important group of rock-forming organisms as far back as the Carboniferous ( and with ancestors in Cambrian rocks ) , and which still form deep sea oozes today . |
| 16 | Lobster-like animals are found as far back as the Triassic , and both crabs and lobsters are frequent and appealing fossils in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks . |
| 17 | Spiders are known as far back as the Carboniferous , but their remains are principally known fossilized from the Tertiary ambers , where perfectly preserved specimens retain even the hairs on the legs . |
| 18 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |
| 19 | As far back as the Domesday Survey , records show that there were two mills at Tewkesbury of ‘ twenty shillings ’ . |
| 20 | Their ancestry can be traced in the Reading area as far back as 1240 . |
| 21 | In the English language literature , Malcolm ( 1938 , although apparently much of this work was written as far back as 1910 ) , Glover ( 1946 ) , Rounce ( 1949 ) and Hyams ( 1952 ) alongside those mentioned in the quotation above , are all striking , original works , marked by their intimate knowledge of local agricultural practices and the general processes of soil erosion . |
| 22 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
| 23 | To get maximum effect from the CE the rig has to be inclined as far back as possible . |
| 24 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 25 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 26 | He was recognised as a ‘ New Star ’ as far back as 1960 , in the days when the Melody Maker had a jazz orientation and featured an annual Jazz Poll . |
| 27 | Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981 . |
| 28 | Psychiatrists , too , have been periodically sceptical of multiple personality disorder , though cases of it appear in the medical literature as far back as the mid-1600s . |
| 29 | Wells , in particular , experienced successive occupation probably from as far back as the Neolithic period . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the present Australian drought can be put in perspective by comparison with the five major droughts that hit the region in the previous 100 years , which is as far back as we have accurate meteorological records in Australia . |