Example sentences of "[vb -s] back at least [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written knowledge of contraception and abortion , some of it potentially effective like coitus interruptus and vaginal sponges and spermicides , goes back at least two millennia ( Himes 1936 , McLaren 1990 ) . |
| 2 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 3 | The party was founded in June 1989 but Green activity in Slovenia goes back at least 20 years , centring on issue-oriented protests , notably over the nuclear plant at Krsko . |
| 4 | er it goes back at least 300 years er possibly longer than that , it may be that when they finish the tar they had services up there to celebrate it or to remember one of the benefactors . |
| 5 | The history of milling at this site is almost as ancient as the village itself and dates back at least 900 years . |
| 6 | It pulls together , with impressive clarity , the tangled story that started at Chilhac , in the Auvergne , where a group of five hand-worked pebbles demonstrates that human habitation in Europe dates back at least 1,800,000 years . |