Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then 30 minutes back home again and about another four hours sitting around the house before retiring to bed . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is your childhood days that haunt your imagination and you would like to set a book some twenty , thirty or forty years back . |
| 3 | The problem is that it probably all lies in the past — thirty , forty years back , if it 's Walter Machin that 's at the heart of it , as I begin to think it could be . |
| 4 | Two Italian ferry boats took over 800 Albanians back to Durres on June 17 and 18 . |
| 5 | 700 farmers back protest over ‘ lunatic ’ beef scheme |
| 6 | He picks up/pushes the ball 2 yrds back towards where the foul was ( Speed and other player still just getting up ) , so its still 8yrd from where the foul was , but now … luckily enough , slap bang centre of the pitch . |
| 7 | The rescuers had hoped to bring forty children back to the region to be fostered by families here . |
| 8 | Turn right on coastal path and follow for 2 miles back to Crackington Haven ( avoid any paths leading inland ) ( b ) . |
| 9 | At 8.10 , cycle and motorcycle were ‘ neck-and-neck ’ ( I use the inverted commas advisedly ! ) at the Slateford aqueduct , while the car was 2 miles back , in Juniper Green ; the bus ( travelling by a different route ) had reached Craiglockhart ; and the train contestant was still waiting at Curriehill station . |
| 10 | Only once did we have leave together for more than forty-eight hours back in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | Kirsty Bull is a friend of mine whose husband left her six months back . |
| 12 | Trying to earn this man 's good opinion was as easy as … as climbing a descending escalator — six steps back for every one forward . |
| 13 | Don had led the ‘ rotten apple ’ investigation five or six years back . |
| 14 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 15 | It provides over 2,000 files of price histories , dating from 10 years back , and with price changes updated immediately on screen . |
| 16 | Thirteen weeks back . |
| 17 | She could feel the enchantment in the words , the song from thirteen years back doubling with the fierce bewitchment of the moment — her eyes were dulling , the smell of the sea overcoming her , her mind sinking away as if into deep water . |
| 18 | Faldo 's was more of a grinding movement , to the annoyance at times of a gallery 25 deep in places , five deep even 100 yards back down fairways . |
| 19 | Confirmation by Brucan on Jan. 23 that the NSF would field candidates in the forthcoming elections ( rescheduled to May 20 ) brought around 2,000 demonstrators back to Victory Square on Jan. 24 . |
| 20 | Off The Bru , a 200–1 chance , was six lengths back in third , with Gee Armytage , on her father 's Merry Master , fourth . |
| 21 | Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage . |
| 22 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 23 | If you acquired 100 shares back in 1973 you would have paid £145 . |
| 24 | ‘ I just packed in the cycling eight years back , ’ says Pat senior , a contemporary of local stars such as Davy Kane and Maurice Foster . |
| 25 | It 's basically the body that Rickenbacker introduced first on the Combo 650 and Combo 850 guitars back in 1957 , the same shape they later carried over to Lennon 's favourite , the model 325 . |
| 26 | We 've done research in other places and there 's mercury from a hundred a hundred and fifty years back . |
| 27 | And when I t when I got on a Friday and and paid me wages over to me Mum , which was natural for you to do , I always got th thre three pennies back . |
| 28 | The bunch were 3.30 behind at this stage but the gaps widened hugely over the final miles , the chasers finishing over three minutes back and the third group , led in by Norman Campbell , over 13 minutes down . |
| 29 | Three minutes to get there three minutes back that 's six minutes . |
| 30 | Last year it nursed more than 1400 animals back to health . |