Example sentences of "years back " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 3 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 4 | Victoria , aged 12 , made a beeline for the reconstituted orange juice and sandwiches prepared by a pair of stout volunteer ladies who arrived from Russia themselves a few years back , and two-year-old Oleg was soon roaring about wildly on a plastic fire-engine in the playroom . |
| 5 | ‘ A few years back , you could not get young women to be active , ’ said Judy Miller , president of the Los Angeles-based Trusteeship , an organisation of influential women in business and the arts . |
| 6 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 7 | But all this changed two years back . |
| 8 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |
| 9 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 10 | A FEW years back , Neville Brody had a go at redesigning the CND logo . |
| 11 | Well , a few years back someone else not far away opened a late-night disco and also called it the House of Music ! |
| 12 | Be there when our enforcement officers finally hand Arni Sacknussen the writ for desertion and five years back payments for maintenance . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm trying to recall if I 've ever set eyes on her ; I 've a vague memory of a plump wee lass at a cousin 's wedding three or four years back . |
| 14 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 15 | A few years back , my mother was staying with us ; a lady of advancing years but still a very keen angler . |
| 16 | Moreover , you 're now at that age when you have to Go Into Hospital in a way which was unthinkable ten years back . |
| 17 | A few years back . ’ |
| 18 | A couple of years back I reviewed the Delmé Quartet 's standard encore disc on Hyperion . |
| 19 | It had become obvious a few years back that this was a problem for Britain . |
| 20 | This happened to us a few years back . |
| 21 | The final stage is to link the movement of prices in 1985 to the movement of prices in previous years back to the base date which in 1985 was 15 January 1974 . |
| 22 | This , everyone had agreed two years back , was because women were so used to being in groups dominated by a minority of articulate men ( all groups — social , work , political ) that it was important they ( we ) should be able to discover and articulate our own understanding of all the minute day-by-day ways in which we were oppressed , and relate these to a developing understanding of the ways women were oppressed in society generally . |
| 23 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 24 | years back . |
| 25 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 26 | Akai tried a similar idea a few years back with their U4 phrase trainer , but that was , surprisingly , a flop . |
| 27 | Example 1 is the hook riff from a well known Huey Lewis tune from a few years back . |
| 28 | And he started playing through some of the songs from my club repertoire , answering my enquiring look with , ‘ I worked with you a couple of years back , in East Dean Working Men 's Club . ’ |
| 29 | But I remember something about Don Airey ( Colosseum , Bernie Marsden , Cozy Powell etc. ) playing keyboards in a band of that very name just a couple of years back . |
| 30 | Having built their cult reputation four years back on a rib-tickling broadside against bar-room self-aggrandisement called ‘ Preposterous Tales In The Life Of Ken McKenzie ’ and the hilariously deadpan ‘ Three English Football Grounds ’ , this South London duo now augment their tinny beatbox-plus-guitar formula with throbbing keyboard moodscapes as in current single ‘ We Stand Around ’ , the most unnerving paean to soccer obsessives ever recorded . |