Example sentences of "as late as the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As late as the summer of 1939 Sir Stafford Cripps , expelled from the Labour Party and hardly a natural Baldwin man , was urging him to be a brick in a wall of anti-appeasement national unity . |
| 4 | That his departure can be dated as late as the reign of Mehmed I Uzuncarsili 's alternative suggestion is , however , rendered unlikely by the fact that there exists a dated Rajab 808/December 1405-January 1406 which carries the signature of Ibrahim b . |
| 5 | Twenty-two years earlier , in 1894 , and even as late as the spring of 1911 , the situation could hardly have seemed less promising . |
| 6 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 7 | As late as the end of February it looked as though this was what they would have to do , and then one evening Ernest returned from a visit to Ilkley flushed with excitement . |
| 8 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |
| 9 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |
| 10 | As late as the end of July , it was conceivable that the liberation of Paris might be months away . |
| 11 | As late as the end of Anne 's reign we still find Whigs and Tories calling each other Cavaliers and Roundheads . |