Example sentences of "back in [adj] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project began back in 1976 when I was working for Capital Radio , London 's independent local radio station . |
| 2 | The reason that Xerox finally wants out is not hard to divine : back in 1989 when it created Xerox Desktop Systems Inc , which marketed the Ventura Publisher product , it said that annual business was running at $40m . |
| 3 | Perhaps the 33-year-old was trying to relive those days back in 1983 when he was the youngest in the House . |
| 4 | Always a drag to watch , I remember one game at their old Plough Lane tip , back in 1991 when we won 1–0 . |
| 5 | I saw this piece of rock back in 1986 when I went to America with Gerald Costello for the NCMD to help set up the World Council for Metal Detecting . |
| 6 | John Emburey did take Mahanama 's wicket , but the 40-year-old off-spinner is clearly not the bowler he was back in 1982 when he bowled England to victory in Sri Lanka 's inaugural Test in Colombo with a second innings six for 33 . |
| 7 | Bell Atlantic acquired its VLIW technology from minisupercomputer builder Multiflow Computers Inc for an undisclosed fee after the pioneer of that particular brand of computing threw in the towel back in 1990 when it ran out of cash ( UX No 276 ) . |
| 8 | Rangers go to Motherwell knowing that if they avoid defeat they will equal their best unbeaten sequence of matches — 38 — set back in 1975/76 when they won the domestic treble . |
| 9 | As for Unix , as we said way back in 1984 when we forecast that it would come to dominate the mainstream market , it is fundamentally quite inappropriate as the basis of a robust commercial operating system because it is designed for free sharing of resources and code between users , where one of the most important requirements of a mission-critical operating system is that the crass behaviour of some idiot wo n't bring the system down . |