Example sentences of "[adv] late as " in BNC.
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| 61 | 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 ) . |
| 62 | As late as the middle of the seventeenth century we find , for example , that even at the age of 30 Samuel Pepys ( 1633–1703 ) , already an important government official , did not possess a watch . |
| 63 | Barbarossa 's common soldiers were almost certainly still wearing Norman-style hauberks as late as the Third Crusade . |
| 64 | Variant weapons included the guisarme or fauchard , which persisted in many forms as late as the seventeenth century , and inflicted such horrible wounds that attempts were made to have it banned during the medieval period . |
| 65 | The halberd was not introduced extensively into England or France until as late as the fourteenth century , but may well have been used by the Germanic troops of Barbarossa , particularly those vassals from the more northerly territories . |
| 66 | Towards the close of the twelfth century the pike was used to counter cavalry charges , and remained in use in various forms until as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | As late as the 1950s bicycles were still providing Ministerial transport on the Circuit . |
| 69 | But even as late as 1861 , it only represented 9 per cent of all architects . |
| 70 | As late as 26th June , Palmerston was assuring the Queen that the Mutiny was only a local affair , but by 11th July the full extent of the fighting and accompanying atrocities were known to the Government . |
| 71 | Indeed , in the author 's own village the parish register was being kept in Latin as late as 1657 . |
| 72 | Even as late as 1984 , the Revd Francis Heydon , the then Third Grand Principal of Grand Lodge , gave this interpretation . |
| 73 | As late as 1815 , in his Treatise on the management of draught horses , especially those in the coal trade in London , Higgs was pleading for a clear detachment of the veterinary surgeon and the farrier from each other . |
| 74 | THE NATURAL CLIMAX vegetation of Southern Britain is deciduous woodland , and as late as 731 A.D. the Venerable Bede described the Wealden Forest as being ‘ thick and impenetrable ’ . |
| 75 | All the difficulties with ‘ wet white ’ were eliminated in Birmingham where there was an obscure ruling that bare legs were banned ( this remained in force as late as the 1950s ) , so when playing there they were given cotton tights but had to put a penny at the side , wrap a piece of string round it and the tights in order to hold them up . |
| 76 | Defoe described the Lake District as ‘ the wildest and most frightful ’ , and as late as 1767 John Brown of Penrith condemned the Lake and Vale of Keswick for their ‘ horrible grandeur — steep and shaggy sides , dreadful heights , rude and terrible magnificence ’ . |
| 77 | By this time diamonds were well-known to western Europe , and were worn as jewels , but even so it was not until as late as 1796 that the chemical nature of diamond was finally established . |
| 78 | 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 . ’ |
| 79 | As late as 1976 , most serious chess players thought that the day when computers would play master-level chess was still far off . |
| 80 | And as late as 1906 a Stanley steam car held the world speed record of 204 km/h . |
| 81 | But any time between eleven and fourteen is ‘ normal ’ , although some girls may start as early as nine or ten or as late as fifteen or sixteen . |
| 82 | Irvine 's Society of Archers was in existence as late as the 1850s but for some reason unknown the papingo shoot appears to have ended as early as 1721 . |
| 83 | For example , in the first quarter of the 19th century , the county 's population ranged between 85,000 and 100,000 and as late as 1860 was still under 200,000 . |
| 84 | The business Simpson acquired was charming , but a financial shambles ; as late as 1986 it had lost £1 million on sales of £3 million . |
| 85 | As late as 1658 Edward Topsel , in his serious work on natural history , followed detailed descriptions of the cat 's anatomy and behaviour with the solemn comment that ‘ the familiars of Witches do most ordinarily appear in the shape of Cats , which is an argument that this beast is dangerous to soul and body . ’ |
| 86 | It is clear that the Confessor retained his native energy to the end of his life , since Earl Harold built a hunting lodge for him in Wales as late as 1065 . |
| 87 | 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 . |
| 88 | In spite of his plans , as late as January 1938 Hitler told Colonel Beck that he considered the Danzig arrangements binding , that he thought it possible to accommodate Poland and that he had no territorial claims to make . |
| 89 | The average age for the menopause to occur is 50 — in some women it can start as early as 35 and in others as late as 60 . |
| 90 | Between the two lay the formidable barrier of the River Spey , which , as late as 17 March , was said to be ‘ so swelled with snow melting down from the hills that it will not be fordable without going a great way up the country ’ . |