Example sentences of "even [adv] late as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some traditional communities , even as late as the early 1930s , unmarried girls were married off within a month or so after their first menstruation ; until then , they were kept hidden inside their homes . |
| 2 | Royal armies thus depended upon mercenaries — even as late as the battle of Waterloo in 1815 , over half the army of Napoleon was not French , and half that of Wellington ( excluding the forces of Blücher ) was not English . |
| 3 | Even as late as the last quarter of the sixteenth century Queen Elizabeth 's chief minister Lord Burghley warned his son to avoid undertaking new enterprises on three particularly ominous anniversaries in the ecclesiastical calendar : the first Monday in April ( the murder of Abel ) , the first Monday in August ( the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , and the last Monday in December ( the birthday of Judas Iscariot ) . |
| 4 | Twenty-two years earlier , in 1894 , and even as late as the spring of 1911 , the situation could hardly have seemed less promising . |
| 5 | Even as late as the Elizabethan theatre , where we find an owner or lessee in contractual or hiring relations with a company or with individuals , the processes of internal control of the production are obscure . |
| 6 | After the first knowledge of the place , and still after the first meeting with Conchis , even as late as the Foulkes incident , I had wanted to talk about it — and to Alison . |
| 7 | However , it is noteworthy that even as late as the nineteenth century , the courts were still discussing whether , in the case of a young girl , there was penetration sufficient to constitute rape where the hymen remained intact . |
| 8 | In the clay land areas , little stone was available for building , and timber remained the main material of houses , even as late as the fifteenth century . |