Example sentences of "[be] back [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 And then you 're back to the three sixty or nought again .
2 Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me .
3 In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years .
4 That was back in the early sixties .
5 That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since .
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