Example sentences of "as [adv] as the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty . |
| 2 | If the Romans had followed the Etruscan path , Heraclides Ponticus would not have called Rome a Greek city , a polis hellenis , as early as the middle of the fourth century B.C. ( Plut . |
| 3 | As early as the middle of the fifteenth century , as part of a political deal with the King of Congo , the Portuguese actually managed to ordain a black African bishop . |
| 4 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 5 | 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 . |