Example sentences of "go back [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |
2 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
3 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
4 | Yeah , I 'm gon na go back just a little way |
5 | Fly ran the Hackney branch of a chainstore opticians and we went back quite a long way together as OADFs go . |