Example sentences of "go back a [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
2 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
3 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
4 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
5 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
6 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
7 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
13 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |