Example sentences of "[vb pp] as far back as [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 2 | The first phase of his theorizing was represented by a group of essays , including the celebrated Opera and Drama , that were written as far back as 1849–51 , before much of his most distinctive music was yet composed . |
| 3 | In the English language literature , Malcolm ( 1938 , although apparently much of this work was written as far back as 1910 ) , Glover ( 1946 ) , Rounce ( 1949 ) and Hyams ( 1952 ) alongside those mentioned in the quotation above , are all striking , original works , marked by their intimate knowledge of local agricultural practices and the general processes of soil erosion . |
| 4 | The nursery rhyme then , comes from Tommy Thumb 's Pretty Song Book from around seventeen forty-four , and the division of bags , one for the master , one for the dame , one for the little boy who where wherever he is , lives down the lane , is said to refer to the export tax on wool , which was imposed as far back as twelve seventy-five , making even the outsider sheep of value . |
| 5 | The parish had been enclosed as far back as 1761 — two generations earlier — but Alken 's view still gives a general impression of wide spaces and open views . |
| 6 | The foundations of the Whitbread Hop Farm have been traced as far back as 1836 , when it was known as Beltring Farm . |
| 7 | Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842 . |
| 8 | FitzGerald had been determined as far back as 1964 ( 1964 ; 1972 ) to make constitutional changes to those articles which appeared to alienate Northern protestant opinion . |
| 9 | The sequence can be extended as far back as 275 only by including the Newton St. Loe Orpheus as the first , innovative mosaic . |
| 10 | In the spring of 1988 , the apparently moribund plan for rural systematization which had been heralded as far back as 1968 was suddenly taken up again . |