Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] early [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of marriage into the royal house of France had been openly raised at least as early as September 1543 , and presumably had been in the mind of Mary of Guise long before that . |
| 2 | Verderers are mentioned by that name at least as early as Richard I 's Forest Assize of 1198 . |
| 3 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 4 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 6 | Similar cuts were used by Indian lapidaries , at least as early as the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 8 | This was John Redford , vicar-choral and master of the choristers of St. Paul 's Cathedral from at least as early as 1534 ( when he signed the loyal declaration denying papal authority over the Church in England ) till his death in 1547 , playwright and poet . |
| 9 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 10 | Such an idea was beginning to be put forward at least as early as the 1720s . |