Example sentences of "back in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in 1952 the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe , laid down specific guidelines to the Director-General of MI5 as to how it should operate in the future . |
| 2 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 3 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 4 | Troopers of the rearguard were already falling back in reasonable order . |
| 5 | It might come back in six months , in might come back in six years . |
| 6 | It might come back in six months , in might come back in six years . |
| 7 | Expect him back in six months . |
| 8 | And he said I was to come back in six months ’ time . ’ |
| 9 | Rather unfortunate because er er of course you d I ca n't tell you which ones I 've done , which ones I have n't done , but all assignments will be back in six one eight , final year assignments , will be back in six one eight erm at some point early on Friday morning . |
| 10 | Rather unfortunate because er er of course you d I ca n't tell you which ones I 've done , which ones I have n't done , but all assignments will be back in six one eight , final year assignments , will be back in six one eight erm at some point early on Friday morning . |
| 11 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 12 | er , sort of er , they wanted to sign him off but our Tom said no he do n't want to be signed off so they put them on er , he 's to go back in six months |
| 13 | Said he 'd be back in six weeks . |
| 14 | He says back in 1963 the trough was due to be broken up to make way for a path . |
| 15 | It was back in sixty-six . |
| 16 | I showered , shaved — shaved my legs — like I said this was back in sixty-six , the world was a more innocent place , those days no one accused you of anti-feminism if you were caught with a tube of Immac . |
| 17 | It was back in 1939 that Frederic Joliot and his colleagues demonstrated the possibility of the fission of uranium atoms in a chain reaction and , along with Francois Perrin , filed the first two French patents on nuclear reactors . |
| 18 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 19 | I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 . |
| 20 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 21 | This , diverted , now turned into a recital about every distant relative Neil Cochrane possessed , all of whom , apparently , had only one wish — to see him back in polite society again . |
| 22 | A further agreement has also been reached on the return to Germany of a part of the library of the German town of Gotha , 300,000 volumes of which were returned by the Soviet Government to the GDR back in 1956 . |
| 23 | Back in 1956 Philip Moore declared that : ‘ A massive birth control programme is the only action that will permit European survival and at the same time be acceptable to the rest of the world ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ No player … has shown greater ability to retain possession of the ball … his passes are invariably accurate and reach a forward so that the latter can make rapid headway ’ eulogised a Palace scribe back in 1913 , by which time H.H. ( as he was popularly called ) had become our club captain — indeed it was while Harry was our skipper that we had our best Southern League season and went within an ace of winning the Championship in 1914 . |
| 25 | Credit to the team , however , who rose above the boycott , preserving a remarkable sequence of success at fortress Kensington , 11 wins on the trot now , after a last defeat way back in 1934–35 . |
| 26 | Wall , the wery nex day he wus back in tha shop with the lavertry pearper tucked under his arm . |
| 27 | Jimmy Cook was also back in familiar territory , quietly amiable as ever , pulling on the moustache and whispering that he would n't mind another year or two with Somerset after all . |
| 28 | ‘ Queen were the first big band to really plunge into the South American market , back in 1981 , ’ explains Neil . |
| 29 | The fact that consciousness is able to operate independently of the physical vehicle has been proved throughout vast research , and that an ‘ interconnectiveness ’ exists between mind and matter was brought clearly into focus in a study prepared for the House of Representatives Science and Technology Commission in the United States , back in 1981 . |
| 30 | I had seen these images of John before , but then came a video report from Danish TV back in 1981 . |