Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] back [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOUL singer Whitney Houston yesterday cemented her place in a galaxy of stars going back 40 years with this year 's Christmas No. 1 . |
| 2 | The court heard that Cowden , a former professional conman , had a string of convictions going back 53 years . |
| 3 | Scientific instruments and optical components , many made by himself , crowd every available space from floor to ceiling jostling with geological specimens , souvenirs from his travels to remote regions of the Earth , and boxes of photographs reaching back 65 years into history , including early colour photographs and stereoscopic pairs . |
| 4 | And I discover too that he is the culmination of centuries of God 's revelation recorded in documents going back hundreds of years before his time . |
| 5 | Some confessed to crimes going back three or four years . |