Example sentences of "[noun sg] as early as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Characteristic symptoms of monopolization can be seen in the reorganization of music hall as early as the 1880s ; corporate ownership , national and regional syndicates and chains , and restrictive licensing policies combined to freeze out the small entrepreneur ( see Bailey 1986a , passim ) . |
| 2 | It is expected to become law as early as the Summer . |
| 3 | xxxiii ) , but may have contracted an advantageous political marriage as early as the year 440 . |
| 4 | Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century ; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county , a reapplication of the Carolingian ban . |
| 5 | Although the personal concerns of rulers and their consorts began to find reflection in the jade record as early as the Shang dynasty , in general state affairs were dominant at this time . |
| 6 | Giants , trailing by seven points after the first leg , took an aggregate lead as early as the fourth minute , but their game never flowed as missed shots and tired , sloppy defence allowed the Finns to stay in touch through their prolific three-point shooters . |
| 7 | Ipswich could have taken the lead as early as the second minute , when Steve Whitton picked up a poor clearance by Nigel Spink and cracked a drive just wide from 25 yards . |
| 8 | Carr started to bleed slightly above his left eye as early as the second round , and he was twice in danger of being disqualified for using his head rather than his fists . |
| 9 | In contrast , Western whaling nations needed the whale oil , although it is true that products from coastal whaling in Europe included meat as early as the 11th century . |
| 10 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Darling , I swear I started questioning her story as early as the next day . |
| 13 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 14 | Kathleen Stone ( 1973 ) identifies this device in operation as early as the late nineteenth century , in the steel industry . |
| 15 | Dunning 's and his co-workers ' ( 1984 ) historical survey of Football Association minutes and reports contained in the Leicester Mercury also provides evidence of pitch invasions and other forms of crowd disorder as early as the 1890s . |
| 16 | Akeman Street was the boundary between what is now Tackley Park and Whitehill Farm as early as the year 1004 when King Ethelred gave the small estate of Whitehill to St Frideswide 's monastery at Oxford , and it is still a boundary though the Roman road has vanished from sight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Traffic was passing that way as early as the Shang dynasty and under the Han the silk route was crucial enough to be incorporated in the Empire . |
| 19 | Elementary synthesis was introduced to the scheme as early as the second edition . |
| 20 | For this they were peculiarly well suited by reason of their durability , portability , uniformity and ease of recognition ; Cowries probably came into use as currency as early as the Shang dynasty . |
| 21 | In the east of the shire , there was some enclosure as early as the 1250s , it was well under way by the middle of the fourteenth century and virtually complete by the mid fifteenth . |
| 22 | The ancient Egyptians had no compunction in substituting glass or faience for natural stones , the Byzantines explored the possibilities of enamel and the Chinese began to produce pearls by culture as early as the thirteenth century , a process which in the hands of the Japanese first brought fine pearls to the new mass market . |
| 23 | Omanis made their mark in history as early as the third century . |
| 24 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Souness may have been banished to the stands , but it did not stop his side from assaulting the Russian goal as early as the second minute when Don Hutchison drove Steve McManaman 's cross over . |
| 27 | More recent research , however , has revealed that the radical theories justifying the supremacy were being promoted at court by members of the Boleyn faction as early as the summer of 1531 , well before Cromwell became the king 's chief minister ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 28 | Its public welfare , heralded as a prospect unique on earth when Parliament accepted the Beveridge report in 1943 , was in relative decline as early as the 1950s before its continental rivals ; its industrial growth so slow that by the 1970s it was the poorest member of the Community , as it then was , excepting only Ireland and Italy . |
| 29 | Most researchers agree that the rise in greenhouse gases will reach the equivalent of doubling the carbon dioxide concentration from its pre-industrial value as early as the 2030s . |
| 30 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |