Example sentences of "as far back as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished . |
| 2 | For example , as far back as 1923 a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence had looked into the distribution of doctors , dentists and hospital services in a future war ( in effect , tasks that were taken up by the Emergency Medical Service in 1938 ) , and air raid precautions had been discussed within Whitehall since 1924 by the Air Raid Precautions Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence ( which relinquished responsibility for this to the Home Office in 1935 ) |
| 3 | ROMNEY Marsh , some forty-five miles south-east of London on the coast of Kent , is a two-hundred-square-mile area reclaimed from the sea by a system of dykes and channels started as far back as Roman times . |
| 4 | The only way forward for Scottish women 's football is to become affiliated to the S F A and I can remember back as far , as far back as nineteen seventy one when we pushed for that and agreed to recognise us . |
| 5 | Those of you who remember Fred will know how he worked to start the British Pensioners and Trade Union Action Association as far back as nineteen seventy two . |
| 6 | The turkey originated from the American continent as far back as 10 million years ago . |
| 7 | The sequence can be extended as far back as 275 only by including the Newton St. Loe Orpheus as the first , innovative mosaic . |
| 8 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 9 | FitzGerald had been determined as far back as 1964 ( 1964 ; 1972 ) to make constitutional changes to those articles which appeared to alienate Northern protestant opinion . |
| 10 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 11 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |
| 12 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 13 | There have been many classic occasions down the years , one as far back as 1973 when the writer of this piece was a makeweight speaker at a Yorkshire Post literary lunch in Harrogate , attended by four hundred elegant people — mostly well-heeled , middle aged ladies in all their finery . |
| 14 | One of those few is Bruce Dickey , as gramophiles may remember as far back as 1981 from the album of ‘ Virtuoso Ornamentation around 1600 ’ by Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ( Harmonia Mundi , 9/81 — nla ) . |
| 15 | The library was large and , rather than hunt through the endless rows of volumes dating as far back as 1530 , she had sought the help of the librarian . |
| 16 | The matter was first drawn to our attention as far back as 1974 when the nuclear industry inspectorate 's chief inspector said this about the consequences of developing reprocessing in the United Kingdom : ’ The price for Britain of building lucrative business world-wide in nuclear fuel services could be that it becomes the dumping place for the world 's nuclear waste . ’ |
| 17 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |
| 18 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 19 | As far back as 1919 Hugo Koch , a Dutchman , envisaged an electrically-impulsed encoding machine . |
| 20 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 21 | Here in a vault at the county 's record office are kept seventy five thousand wills dating as as far back as fifteen forty one . |
| 22 | But ICI 's real dividend per share in 1992 is lower than it was as far back as 1959 . |
| 23 | Their ancestry can be traced in the Reading area as far back as 1240 . |
| 24 | The nursery rhyme then , comes from Tommy Thumb 's Pretty Song Book from around seventeen forty-four , and the division of bags , one for the master , one for the dame , one for the little boy who where wherever he is , lives down the lane , is said to refer to the export tax on wool , which was imposed as far back as twelve seventy-five , making even the outsider sheep of value . |
| 25 | The luxurious nature of the palace complex , of which this is thought to be only a wing , together with its spectacular position , led archaeologists as far back as 1976 to speculate that this was one of Herod 's palaces . |
| 26 | Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842 . |
| 27 | The system was improved in 1597 , when ministers and churchwardens were instructed henceforth to keep their records in a bound register and to copy out surviving documents at least as far back as 1558 , when Elizabeth came to the throne . |
| 28 | From as far back as late 1868 items in his notebooks show this happening . |
| 29 | To get maximum effect from the CE the rig has to be inclined as far back as possible . |
| 30 | Holding the tablet with the thumb and first finger of your right hand , drop this as far back as possible in the dog s mouth , without releasing your grip on the jaws . |