Example sentences of "even [adv] late as [num] " in BNC.
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1 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
2 | After 1638 nearly two-thirds of the Somerset Levels were still unreclaimed , and even as late as 1769 , the local drainage agent , Richard Locke , was stoned , and his effigy was burned ‘ by the owners of geese ’ . |
3 | Yet of those lines only 10 actually crossed the border into Russian Poland , and even as late as 1918 there was no direct railway link between Poznán and Warsaw . |
4 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
5 | But even as late as 1861 , it only represented 9 per cent of all architects . |
6 | The nation-wide state publishing organization , Gosizdat , was responsible for the dissemination of official literature of all kinds , but the flow of materials to the provinces remained very weak even as late as 1923 . |
7 | Thus , in spite of the importance of the pioneering work in rural areas , it was apparent even as late as 1935 that the District had made little substantial and quantifiable impact in its rural counties and among its dispersed population . |
8 | Even as late as 1970 , the official position as set out by the DES was that they would continue to grow slowly to about 130,000 by 1981 , marginally below the Robbins projection of 131,400 for that year . |
9 | Even as late as 1956 a considerable earthquake destroyed half the buildings on the west coast of the island . |
10 | Even as late as 1977 , Lane L.J . |
11 | Even as late as 1984 , the Revd Francis Heydon , the then Third Grand Principal of Grand Lodge , gave this interpretation . |
12 | Long after the schism between Anglicanism and the Roman Catholic Church — even as late as 1571 — the forbidden services were still observed in Keswick ( and indeed elsewhere in the north ) . |
13 | Moreover , even as late as 1985 , an unpublished government document reveals , there were 989 children among one day 's population in Indian prisons , on 30 June 1985 . |
14 | Richard Fynes noted that : ‘ The men were sufficiently endowed with natural interest to be observant of the effect of wind upon the ventilation of the mines , and even as late as 1822 , before barometers and thermometers were generally used in the pits to indicate the state of the temperature , if the wind were blowing from the southeast threatening rain , the men refused to work . ’ |
15 | Even as late as 1900 it would not have been safe to walk in any of these streets after dark . |