Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] back [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do not have Model Books as far back as 35 , all is still not lost . |
| 2 | Guests included 8 past presidents as far back as Roger Mansfield ( 1960–61 ) . |
| 3 | The race has been taxing young bloods as far back as the 17th Century . |
| 4 | First , there was the fact that the crucifix is mentioned in documents as far back as the 1500s , and since what was visible clearly was later in date , restorers reasoned that there must be something underneath it ; then there were the traces of thirteenth-century paint at the foot of the cross . |
| 5 | Nummulites are a giant kind of foraminiferan , an important group of rock-forming organisms as far back as the Carboniferous ( and with ancestors in Cambrian rocks ) , and which still form deep sea oozes today . |
| 6 | Leith is mentioned in historical records as far back as 1128 , but its authentic history as a port dates from 1329 when King Robert the Bruce granted a charter of ‘ The Harbour and Mills of Leith ’ to the City of Edinburgh . |
| 7 | London was linked to all parts of the provinces by weekly services as far back as the reign of Charles I and probably earlier . |
| 8 | The luxurious nature of the palace complex , of which this is thought to be only a wing , together with its spectacular position , led archaeologists as far back as 1976 to speculate that this was one of Herod 's palaces . |
| 9 | The Quarter can trace its roots as far back as 1460 , when work in precious metals is first recorded in Birmingham . |