Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] back [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 Did your grandparents mention any other parts of the glen that used to used away back in time that are just ruins now ?
2 It has had for its end the production of a convincing explanation of the writer 's understanding of the origin of the Created God , that is , a God that man can endow with recognisable origins to be found far back in time and with qualities from which the desire to have an absolute standard of human behaviour can ultimately be evolved .
3 A common agricultural policy had been on the agenda of Europe ever since Sicco Mansholt had put forward an early version to the Council of Europe in 1950 , though its roots lay further back in time in a series of discussions sponsored by the European Movement .
4 The Author has taken this one crash and delved deeply back in time to reveal the stories of 25 pilots that are known to have flown this particular Spitfire .
5 The ancestor of most dolphins is not clear ( although this is a very active field of research at present ) , and with further work the records of most groups probably will be extended further back in time .
6 Naturally , if one goes farther back in time the evidence becomes more shaky , but nevertheless there apparently were reversals in late Permian and late Cretaceous times which coincide with the two most important extinction levels .
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