Example sentences of "go back [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
| 2 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 3 | It is not necessary to go back a hundred years , however , in order to discover a London haunted by unusually similar fears about the leniency of the law and the terrors of the night . |
| 4 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
| 5 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |