Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] far back " in BNC.
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1 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
2 | And this had been the way things were for as far back as the frogs could remember . |
3 | if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid . |
4 | Wells , in particular , experienced successive occupation probably from as far back as the Neolithic period . |
5 | In the course of history jade has been held in highest esteem among four quite distinct groups of people , the Chinese from the later stone age to modern times , the neolithic inhabitants of substantial parts of temperate Europe , the Maori of New Zealand and in the New World the inhabitants of early Mexico from as far back as Maya times . |
6 | ‘ My mother sang — and music was the most important thing in my life , from as far back as I can remember . |
7 | From as far back as late 1868 items in his notebooks show this happening . |
8 | All her life , from as far back as she could remember , she had been in demand . |
9 | HAVING watched Carrick Rangers through the years from as far back as the B Division days I feel I must comment on the pathetic lack of support given to the manager by the board . |
10 | If was a far cry from the big house that they 'd lived in as far back as she could remember . |
11 | If units of good were constantly being cancelled by units of evil , ultimately mankind could be reverted to any point in time past , even to as far back as the beginning of life . |
12 | The catapult is powered by a huge piece of stretchy sinew and the height the Goblin reaches is largely dependent on how far back the Doom Diver can force the catapult . |