Example sentences of "back [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 All you had to do here was to move back a few steps and you 've made it much more interesting in the foreground .
32 Make a note of their position and come back a few weeks later to collect them when they are fully grown .
33 This has set me back a few weeks , that 's all .
34 Cast your minds back a few weeks .
35 Remember back a few issues ( UX No 363 ) when Gain Technology , the multimedia start-up that used to call itself Cayenne Systems , was talking about giving the IBM/Apple joint venture a run for its money and persuading IBM to adopt its technology ?
36 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 .
37 One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England .
38 The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) .
39 Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished .
40 Tyler and I go back a few years .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go .
44 Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ?
45 Oh yes you 're going back a few years !
46 Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now
47 but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago
48 Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview .
49 We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity .
50 Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later .
51 ‘ But to my surprise , he phoned me back a few days later , and offered to help me .
52 Oh I phoned her back a few days later and said how are things now ?
53 All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed .
54 It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw .
55 Erm , it 's a city , this takes me back a few months , since the Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry , the character , special character of a city , is derives from a number of elements , there 's the green wedges which centre on the strays which penetrate into the heart of the built up area , there is the encircling belt of open countryside which links those areas together , there are the numerous settlements within the greenbelt and their relationship to one another , and to the city of York .
56 Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months .
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