Example sentences of "[noun pl] stretching back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 2 | To understand the meaning of survival , stand beneath a maidenhair tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) or a dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostoboides ) ; both are well represented in Trust gardens and both are ‘ living fossils ’ with pedigrees stretching back to the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 3 | Archaeology has , however , revealed a growing number of very characteristic narrow rectangular structures stretching back from the available street frontages and often forming blocks or rows . |
| 4 | This Easter weekend proves it yet again , with traffic queues stretching back from the West Country halfway to London and Birmingham . |
| 5 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 6 | Among the innumerable items which they brought away from Little Lea — a lumpish wardrobe to which Jack had a sentimental attachment , for instance — there were countless letters , diaries and family papers stretching back to the lifetime of their Lewis and Hamilton grandparents . |
| 7 | In Britain , too , observers have noted instances of direct government interference in the day-to-day running of the railways stretching back to the early days of nationalization . |
| 8 | With a sniff a hyaena can perceive not only the here and now but , simultaneously , a whole series of events stretching back into the past . |