Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tsu Ma was some fifty ch'i back , his mount straining , its front legs fighting for each ch'i of ground . |
| 2 | Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage . |
| 3 | Zimbabwean James Loughnane was a further three shots back in fourth place . |
| 4 | In a letter to The Times , published on 9 May 1931 , a correspondent signing himself ‘ Old Brightonian ’ recalled an occasion when Woods was bowling in a school match and the wicket-keeper , standing some ten yards back from the wicket , was unable to stop a ball which flashed by him to the boundary but was able to field the stump which the ball had knocked out of the ground . |
| 5 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 6 | The Norwegian rider pushes the rest of Lillywhite 's main rivals down one position , with Czech rider Daniel Kovar a further five seconds back . |
| 7 | The 1973 Grand National was won by Red Rum , ridden by Brian Fletcher , by three quarters of a length from Crisp , with L'Escargot twenty-five lengths away in third and Spanish Steps a further twelve lengths back in fourth . |
| 8 | Using his superior strength , Rocky dragged and wrestled the struggling Larsen another twenty yards back , doubling the distance between them and the blazing building . |
| 9 | The hard course meant there were big gaps between the riders and Nial Quinlan ( South Dublin Mountainbike Club ) was another four minutes back in third place . |
| 10 | There was a strong chase behind and the leaders never got more than a 25-second gap but they held on to the finish where Scott was strongest up the hill to 21 win by a second with Downey a further 14 seconds back . |
| 11 | The village lay a few hundred yards back from the river across fields of yellow stubble . |
| 12 | ‘ So if you were to take the TARDIS a few hundred years back , ’ she said , ‘ what could you do ? ’ |
| 13 | They screwed these three rockets back together , the remaining ones . |
| 14 | Three thousand miles back home . |
| 15 | Moreover , you 're now at that age when you have to Go Into Hospital in a way which was unthinkable ten years back . |
| 16 | The novel represents an attempt to bring these two domains back together through the common discursive mode of narrative . |
| 17 | You 'll perhaps only say if you put out a thousand pounds , you 'll possibly get what three hundred pounds back or something like that ? |
| 18 | In one instance the complainant and his witnesses each had to walk over three hundred kilometres back and forth from the court because the case was postponed several times . |
| 19 | Liverpool enjoyed almost total domination but faced with a team who pulled all 11 players back behind the ball they had to wait until the 38th minute before adding their second . |
| 20 | When we got that , when we had ours it , and er they said if you if you found someone else who would like who would have cold shield you would get er , seventy five pounds back . |
| 21 | When we got that , when we had ours and er they said if you if you found someone else who would like who would have you would get seventy five pounds back and you gave the thing , who was it who was thinking about it ? |
| 22 | Must ‘ ave been a good nine months back , not that long after you left for the front , come to think of it . ’ |
| 23 | Labour 's first fifteen months back in office — the era of the Social Contract between government and unions , the partnership meant to curb soaring inflation in return for an improved ‘ social wage ’ — was a very one-sided affair . |
| 24 | We must have driven several thousand miles back and forth between Al Ain , Abu Dhabi and Dubai . |
| 25 | Consequently the change point was to be constructed several hundred yards back on L.C.C . |
| 26 | We could not get in to see Gracie Fields and , together with hundreds of troops , we stood outside and they relayed her performance , I listened to this glorious voice singing " Sally " and all the rest of her favourite songs , and then walking the other 11 miles back — in flying boots . |
| 27 | On hearing this , the brothers ran the two thousand meters back to the start of their rows and began visiting each tree in turn again to empty the cups into their carrying cans . |
| 28 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 29 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 30 | He reckoned most sevens tournaments back home could only be considered ‘ a joke ’ in comparison . |