Example sentences of "as [adv] as the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 2 | De Selincourt , the editor of The Prelude , dates this phase as early as the end of 1794 ; after this time Wordsworth sought refuge in philosophy ( see Godwin , p. 77 ) and had to be virtually nursed back to mental and moral stability by Dorothy amid rural surroundings . |
| 3 | The idea had been put forward as early as the end of the Second World War , when E. M. W. Tillyard had advocated a new relief university for Oxford and Cambridge at Stamford . |
| 4 | Much of the attack on the slave trade from as early as the end of the 1780s to the debates of 1806 could equally have been , and was , an attack on slavery . |
| 5 | Users of Software AG 's Natural , Adabas and Network products will be offered the chance to take on UnixWare clients or possibly servers following the promise of support for Univel 's operating system as early as the end of this year . |
| 6 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
| 7 | The combined firm , which might be in existence as early as the end of March , would have funds under management of about £4 billion and handle the affairs of more than 30,000 clients . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |
| 11 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |
| 12 | As late as the end of July , it was conceivable that the liberation of Paris might be months away . |
| 13 | As late as the end of Anne 's reign we still find Whigs and Tories calling each other Cavaliers and Roundheads . |