Example sentences of "as late " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some of honest and good heart would not even speak to a Christian as late as the mid-third century , by which date the Christian story and way of life had become well known , because they suspected them of enormities . |
| 32 | But a dark undercurrent of hostility to sexuality and marriage became interwoven with the more benign attitudes towards the body and sexuality current as late as the second century . |
| 33 | As late as 1950 , 10 per cent of a nation-wide opinion survey sample in West Germany regarded Hitler as the statesman who had achieved most for Germany — second only to Bismarck . |
| 34 | Modernists and moderates were probably as numerous as one another , as Charlie Allen of the CIA reported to Casey as late as November 1986 . |
| 35 | With the Turks at the gates of Vienna as late as the seventeenth century , it is not surprising that Bohemia came to be half-forgotten by Western Europe . |
| 36 | North of Trent the last remaining royal forest was Sherwood : here the Marquess of Newcastle held a Forest Eyre in 1663 , which was continued by his deputy by way of adjournment as late as 1676 . |
| 37 | As late as 1986 he persuaded the West Australia government to back a barter deal with the Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 38 | Thus , in spite of the importance of the pioneering work in rural areas , it was apparent even as late as 1935 that the District had made little substantial and quantifiable impact in its rural counties and among its dispersed population . |
| 39 | In many cases the army was mustered as late as May , to allow snow to recede from remote areas , such as the much used Alpine passes . |
| 40 | This seasonal element in warfare persisted as late as the nineteenth century , but in the period of Charles it was often impossible to wage war in the winter , both because of the weather , and because of the basic necessity to harvest crops in autumn for survival of the people . |
| 41 | As late as 804 the northernmost Saxon tribes revolted once more , and on this occasion Charles resorted to deportation as a cure . |
| 42 | The Dannewerk at the narrowest point of the isthmus of Schleswig , reached from sea to sea , and remained as a strategic position in wars between Danes and Germans until as late as the nineteenth century . |
| 43 | Although the Scottish Office would not say how far supplies exceeded MACs for lead , at least 17 schemes were in progress to reduce lead in water that would not be completed until as late as 1992 . |
| 44 | As late as December 1989 Patten 's junior Environment Minister David Trippier said that ‘ at least 12,000 MW ’ of power station capacity would receive FGD to meet the Directive . |
| 45 | As late as 1949 , when Life magazine featured Modigliani nudes in an article on the painter , they continued to offend high-minded citizens . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | As late as 1845 the House excluded strangers from all parts of the House . |
| 48 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |
| 49 | As late as 1866 a hotel at Martinsburg , West Virginia , was turned into a station . |
| 50 | At Guelph as late as 1911 a Romanesque effect was combined with an Italianate tower , while at Goderich extensive offices were incorporated in a large round tower . |
| 51 | As late as 1937 there were no fewer than six breaks of gauge between Sydney and Perth . |
| 52 | As late as 1975 , an authoritative source stated , ‘ The first cardinal principle ’ ( in treating cancer of the breast ) ‘ is that hormonal therapy should be reserved for patients for whom surgical treatment or radiotherapy has been considered and deemed no longer of value ’ . |
| 53 | It will withstand considerable abuse by livestock and machinery , and , although not as productive in the short term as cultivated leys , nor as early growing in spring or as late in the autumn , it provides much-needed living ground for animals through the winter . |
| 54 | Thus herbage seeds can not be sown as early or as late in the year as the cereals so frequently used as cover or nurse crops . |
| 55 | As late as 1827 , travellers were ‘ fearful of entering the fens of Cambridgeshire lest the Marsh Miasma should shorten their lives ’ . |
| 56 | After 1638 nearly two-thirds of the Somerset Levels were still unreclaimed , and even as late as 1769 , the local drainage agent , Richard Locke , was stoned , and his effigy was burned ‘ by the owners of geese ’ . |
| 57 | As late as November 1927 he was revising poems for inclusion in Winter Words , the book with which he intended to mark his 90th birthday , but on 11 December , as Professor Millgate writes , ‘ he found himself , for the first time in his life , quite unable to work ’ . |
| 58 | Even as late as 1900 it would not have been safe to walk in any of these streets after dark . |
| 59 | In fact , as late as the 1940s a shilling a day for a young caddie was considered a good wage . |
| 60 | This system was still in use in western Europe as late as the sixteenth century ! |