Example sentences of "even [adv] early as [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as early as 1887 , however , in the former Dutch East Indies ( at present Indonesia ) , VandeBurg advised a straight fruit diet . |
| 2 | Even as early as 1919 scientists warned of the dangers of an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations . |
| 3 | Britain became involved with cable early on , the first worthwhile trial being that ‘ … carried out in 1838 by Brooke , an Englishman , across the river Hoohley in India ’ .3 Even as early as 1840 a House of Commons committee had looked into the possibility of connecting Dover with Calais . |
| 4 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 5 | Even as early as 1916 Wilson 's satisfaction was unbounded . |
| 6 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 7 | Even as early as 1147 it was apparent that the crusading movement had provided a new sense of aristocratic cohesion in the realm . |
| 8 | When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’ |
| 9 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |