Example sentences of "early as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A primary education system was established throughout Ireland as early as 1831 ( see Akenson 1970 ; Lyons 1973 ; Miller 1973 ) . |
| 2 | If you both want the father to be present at the birth , ask about arrangements for this at the hospital as early as you can . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As early as 1957 , Michel Jouvet in Lyons had reported that the size of the ERP generated by a visual stimulus from the occipital cortex at the back of the brain , a primarily visual area , decreased when the subject was asked to attend to an auditory stimulus . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Britain became involved with cable early on , the first worthwhile trial being that ‘ … carried out in 1838 by Brooke , an Englishman , across the river Hoohley in India ’ .3 Even as early as 1840 a House of Commons committee had looked into the possibility of connecting Dover with Calais . |
| 7 | As early as 1921 , the Newbolt Report , summarizing the evidence of Professor Ernest de Sélincourt , expressed deep unease about the American approach to literary research : |
| 8 | The line in Provençal is from Bertran de Born 's ‘ Planh for the Young English King ’ , which Pound had translated splendidly as early as 1909 . |
| 9 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 10 | And yet he was not doctrinaire about it , having declared on the contrary ( as early as 1917 , significantly in a review of Eliot 's Prufrock and Other Observations ) : |
| 11 | A work as early as The British Museum Is Falling Down ( 1965 ) , about the Rhythm Method of Catholic-approved contraception , was conceived as a movie by Mel Frank but never born . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 14 | The Japanese are developing pagers the size of credit cards which could arrive in this country as early as next year . |
| 15 | Detectives said Mrs Page-Alucard may have been murdered as early as Friday morning , more than 24 hours before her body was discovered . |
| 16 | On the subject of rest , you twitched a bit when Palin was referring to feeling weary as early as the second day . |
| 17 | The deadline on the payment , which is the final tranche of a total Bond investment of more than £154m , is early November , but it now looks as though the money could be paid over as early as next week . |
| 18 | It was one of the more effective Bolshevik controls as early as 1922 , and not only in negative ways . |
| 19 | They had been suggested as early as 3 August by VTsIK , but typically no action was taken until the Communist Party had time to look into the question . |
| 20 | As early as March 1918 the Bolsheviks had merged military and peasant newspapers into the single organ Bednota ( Poverty ) under the direct supervision of the Central Committee . |
| 21 | This issue was first raised as early as 1941 , and by 1943–4 had become a subject of major concern for the British government , aware that unless rules were laid down in advance , the United States would use its enormous wealth , undamaged industrial capability , and the advantages obtained during the war years to drive Britain and other countries off the international air routes . |
| 22 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 23 | The first French post at St Louis was established as early as 1638 . |
| 24 | There is , however , an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image , a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933 : ‘ … some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress ‘ a la Mexicana ’ , but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' |
| 25 | While the process of evolving an all-new and unique Bentley coupe began as early as 1984 with the commissioning of design studies and quarter-scale models , work did not begin in earnest until 1986 when experience from the Turbo R and other developments was available . |
| 26 | The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill . |
| 27 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 28 | It would seem as though The Hobbit , for instance , the story which was to make him famous when it was published in 1937 , had existed in embryonic form as early as about 1930 . |
| 29 | As early as 1909 , British and Colonial had brought over American directors and stars for its films . |
| 30 | As early as 1935 Herbert Wilcox had been forced to resign from his British and Dominions company following the failure of his bid for US success . |