Example sentences of "go back [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going back thirty years are n't we ? |
| 2 | Apart from identifying me as a Leeds supporter , the quality is normally a LOT better than your average socks etc , I have socks which I still wear going back 6–7 years , and they still feel like socks ! |
| 3 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 4 | only going back one year . |
| 5 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 6 | They 're there for one reason and one reason only I know , cos I 've been involved in fox hunting , I 've shot and fished but I 'll tell you something , was also trained to hunt humans , going back many years ago , when I was in the Falkland Islands training for the event that happened eventually . |
| 7 | Flat owners face losing their homes after being landed with a bill for ground rent going back fifteen years . |
| 8 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 9 | The Llandinabo herd has British bloodlines going back 200 years . |
| 10 | and the rent , when I , I 'm going back six years now , the rent to leave it there for twelve months was only seventy pound a year |
| 11 | Oh you 're going back ten years ? |
| 12 | The court heard that Cowden , a former professional conman , had a string of convictions going back 53 years . |
| 13 | SOUL singer Whitney Houston yesterday cemented her place in a galaxy of stars going back 40 years with this year 's Christmas No. 1 . |
| 14 | THE BBC is to be stripped of responsibility for the Queen 's annual Christmas TV broadcast , ending a tradition going back 60 years . |
| 15 | But it is true , Liebchen , ancestry counts , a family line going back 600 years … and I see it in you . ’ |
| 16 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 17 | Similar fluctuations have been found in other climate data going back 130,000 years . |
| 18 | The book contained nothing except a list of dates , going back several years . |
| 19 | It has a continuous history of woodland cover going back 700 years and provides a habitat for a huge variety of plant , bird and butterfly life . |
| 20 | The pageantry of the Sovereign 's Parade , When the senior cadets are formally commissioned and the Adjutant tides up the steps of Old Building on his White charger , goes back many years . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've heard that he was n't on speaking terms with Alfred and that the feud — whatever it was — goes back many years … ’ |
| 22 | Prizes were presented by Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter whose association with the Dundee and Edinburgh Football Clubs goes back many years . |
| 23 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |
| 24 | If we include those whose radio technology goes back 100,000 years , the whole trillion-star galaxy would be within radio range . |
| 25 | Great rift goes back 500 years |
| 26 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 27 | The relationship between the two goes back three years to when NCR built its Systems Manager product on NetLabs ' first-generation product , NetLabs/Manager . |
| 28 | Her history goes back 140 years . |
| 29 | It goes back 50 years . |
| 30 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |