Example sentences of "early [conj] [num] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 2 | As early as 1913 a conference was held of all local authorities in Greater London to plan comprehensively for arterial roads . |
| 3 | Of his early paintings little is known , as he destroyed most of them between 1941 and 1944 , although as early as 1934 a crucifixion exhibited in a Curzon Street basement was singled out for praise by the critic Herbert Read . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As early as 1568 the translation of the first book of Polybius by Christopher Watson of St John 's College , Cambridge , was preceded by a poem in honour of the historian : Polybius reede where as in deede good physike shoult thou finde . |
| 6 | Already as early as 1436 the word had lost its original connotation of nobleman , and been extended to cover merchants and yeomen who had got rich , together with some landowners of as little as £5 a year claiming the title . |
| 7 | As early as 1483 an Act had been passed , legalizing the enclosure of coppices in the forests where felling had taken place , until seedling beech and oak had grown again . |
| 8 | As early as 1968 the government recognized that the development of DGH treatment services was not leading to the replacement of asylums . |
| 9 | As early as 1920 the Ministry set up a committee to study the regional problems of South Wales : the first example in Britain of ad hoc regional planning . |
| 10 | Such a policy intensified opposition to the Forest system : as early as 1277 the king was compelled to offer certain concessions . |