Example sentences of "back [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 2 | ‘ Is that also the reason you will assume Fergus 's mantle and go into the Far Future to bind the Apocalypse and turn back the Four Horsemen ? ’ |
| 3 | Talbot was on deck when the launch brought back the six survivors . |
| 4 | ‘ That reminds me , I must give you back the two pounds you sent me . |
| 5 | The party captured three seats in total , winning back the two seats it lost after the resignations of James Rodgers and daughter Glenda . |
| 6 | As you knit , the edge needles will knit back every two rows . |
| 7 | It was written by Moshe Aumann of the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East and its 24 pages are sprinkled with quotations stretching back a hundred years — from Mark Twain and Lamartine to Lord Milner and the 1937 Palestine Royal Commission — all of which assert that Palestine was a land of brigandage , destitution and desert before the mass immigration of Jews in the late 1930s . |
| 8 | Step into this old fashioned , galleried , very reasonably priced general bookshop , and you step back a hundred years or so . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Just remember , kid , you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word you gave away . ’ |
| 14 | Earlier lava flows , before the coming of man , date back a million years , but since that time the Colorado River has only cut down about 50 feet . |
| 15 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 16 | Some are heaps of stones in a number of characteristic shapes , dating back a thousand years or more . |
| 17 | Though it is possible to trace a system of remedies outside the court structure back a thousand years ( Wraith and Hutchesson , 1973 ) , it is unnecessary to go back beyond the National Insurance Act 1911 for an historical background to modern tribunals . |