Example sentences of "[verb] back in [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 2 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 3 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 4 | ‘ He was OSS , then in London at the time of Winter Garden , then he came back in the mid-Sixties . |
| 5 | I know back in the 1930s Bradford City had a full back called McLuggage , but surely not even Reg believes that somewhere out there is a left back called Halfpound O'Liver . |
| 6 | Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s . |
| 7 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 8 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 9 | I 'm bloody glad I 'm out of there , I would n't go back in a million years , of course he 's sitting there with this chinese cup in his hand , |
| 10 | How 're yuh gon na keep'em down on the farm , after they 've seen Paree , they used to sing back in the 1920s . |
| 11 | The acceleration of the income tax liability may prove to be particularly serious in the context of firms which reached a peak income in the boom year of 1988 , slipped back in the two subsequent years and are now again on a rising profit curve . |
| 12 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |
| 13 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 14 | These fields in humans were discovered back in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 15 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 16 | The biggest category by far in this year 's list is the one for which the awards were originally created back in the 1960s , the Export Awards . |
| 17 | Morris sprawled back in the one armchair with his whisky , watching them all impassively . |
| 18 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 19 | Her breasts were stranded back in the fifties . |