Example sentences of "back [art] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 2 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 3 | I could give examples of how people have been pursued beyond the grave to pull back a few miserly pounds of poll tax payment . |
| 4 | Most meteorites collected elsewhere in the world fell within the past 200 years , although some dates of fall range back a few thousand years . |
| 5 | Emily said , her voice hard , ‘ Paying back a few paltry debts . |
| 6 | He thought he might be able to send back a few second-hand textbooks to add to the single science book used by the 250 pupils . |