Example sentences of "as late " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armistice Day is still only celebrated in Southern Ireland by protestants : as late as the early 1970s , you could still tell a protestant by his poppy on 11 November . |
| 2 | The average age for the menopause to occur is 50 — in some women it can start as early as 35 and in others as late as 60 . |
| 3 | ( Leonard also kept white rats and mice — even as late as his thirties , when on the Greek island of Hydra . ) |
| 4 | One is at the end of Gaudier-Brzeska ( 1916 ) ; another is in a Criterion article of 1937 , ‘ D'Artagnan Twenty Years After ’ ; in that year appeared Polite Essays , which includes Pound 's review of Binyon 's translation of the Inferno ( originally in The Criterion for April 1934 ) ; there are two tributes to Binyon in Guide to Kulchur ( 1938 ) ; in 1948 at St Elizabeth 's Pound was still pressing Binyon on the attention of Charles Olson ; and as late as 1958 he took the opportunity of Pavannes and Divagations to get back into print his appreciative note on The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 5 | And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ? |
| 6 | And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism . |
| 7 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 8 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 9 | As late as last year a narrow conference majority wanted to hold the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament . |
| 10 | He himself paid two fruitless visits to the site of a camp near Torzhok , 200 miles north of Moscow , where as late as 1987 Wallenberg was said to have been held . |
| 11 | As late as 1923 there were still many different ways of assessing production costs and profits . |
| 12 | The nation-wide state publishing organization , Gosizdat , was responsible for the dissemination of official literature of all kinds , but the flow of materials to the provinces remained very weak even as late as 1923 . |
| 13 | As late as i April 1924 , 3,704 out of the 5,416 Party members were concentrated in the towns . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As late as 1926 90.9 per cent of all inhabitants in the guberniia were in rural locations , one of the highest percentages for European Russia . |
| 16 | As late as January 1923 Pravda reported that in some villages in the Saratov guberniia 80 to 85 per cent of the population were still starving . |
| 17 | After his death the standard was taken up by Serov , who still commanded 3,000 men as late as January 1922 . |
| 18 | As late as 1926 this general pattern , though subject to some exceptions , is clearly observable , as will be seen in the case-studies of Tver guberniia and Kazakhstan . |
| 19 | As late as the 1900s , Mrs Humphry Ward , the best-selling Victorian novelist and leading anti-suffragist , stressed that marriage had to be regarded as a necessary discipline , for if husbands and wives could not resolve their differences what hope remained for the larger polity ? |
| 20 | As late as 1970 members of A $ L , to my knowledge , had never heard of Debord , and if they had were not the least bit interested . |
| 21 | Michaelmas daisies , which flower as late as October , are a good source of nectar for peacocks and tortoiseshells that need to build themselves up before hibernating for the winter . |
| 22 | The shoots were pushing their heads above the ground even though the group was still able to claim record profits as late as January of this year . |
| 23 | As late as mid-1947 a reunited Germany was seen by the Foreign Secretary , Ernest Bevin , as a greater danger to world peace than the Soviet Union ; and the Chiefs of Staff were assuming that Russia was unlikely to solve the problems of atomic weapon production before 1956 at the earliest . |
| 24 | The cabinet was informed as late as possible ; even ministers on the poll-tax review committee were not told what was coming . |
| 25 | Halifax , however , was always more equivocal ; he was trying as late as the battle for France to keep the option of peace talks open , if they could preserve the independence of the British Empire . |
| 26 | Gloria would be able to read her Picturegoer as late as she wanted without keeping Dot awake . |
| 27 | ( They were still patrolling the streets of Madrid as late as 1973 , when they were officially retired . ) |
| 28 | Jeremy Taylor 's The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying ( 1651 ) continued to be a well-loved book of solace and meditation throughout the nineteenth century ; seven editions were published by Pickerings , and Rivingtons brought out a new edition as late as 1889 . |
| 29 | In some traditional communities , even as late as the early 1930s , unmarried girls were married off within a month or so after their first menstruation ; until then , they were kept hidden inside their homes . |
| 30 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |