Example sentences of "[vb base] back [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 2 | Look back over the last week and count the number of " risk-decisions " you or your team took . |
| 3 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 4 | Although some attempts at tackling air pollution problems date back to the last century or even earlier , most countries introduced their strategy for air pollution control in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s . |
| 5 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |