Example sentences of "[verb] back more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend . |
| 2 | Many go back more than a decade — to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s . |
| 3 | The origins of British railway unions go back more than a century ( Bagwell 1963 ; McKillop 1950 ; Murphy 1980 ) , although it was only in 1911 that the unions won recognition , with the help of government intervention , from the railway companies . |
| 4 | Through a series of reviews reaching back more than a decade , British scholar-critics have encouraged an approach to early-music performance that reflects the priorities of their academic training . |
| 5 | Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade . |
| 6 | Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade . |