Example sentences of "late [conj] [num] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As late as 1191 the tomb of Rosamund Clifford — Henry 's " Fair Rosamund " , who died in 1176 — was still covered in silk cloth and tended by the nuns of Godstow Priory in accordance with the terms of Henry 's benefaction to their nunnery . |
| 2 | As late as 1866 a hotel at Martinsburg , West Virginia , was turned into a station . |
| 3 | As late as 1956 a team of investigators described the plight of a woman in a mining village whose husband refused to use a sheath and who , because she had no bathroom could not use a cap . |
| 4 | As late as 1845 the House excluded strangers from all parts of the House . |
| 5 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 6 | As late as 1730 the definition of a saucer was still ‘ a small dish to hold sauce ’ . |
| 7 | ( As late as 1906 a majority of the industrial workforce were in establishments of less than 100 employees . ) |
| 8 | As late as 1947 the opportunity was apparently still available . |
| 9 | There were District Officers , and there were Assistant District Officers , but they were stationed at regional headquarters where they functioned , not as independent administrators , but as assistants to the Resident : as late as 1921 the Resident at Kano declined to accept the posting of political officers to permanent stations in the districts . |