Example sentences of "back over the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 2 | And the ‘ golden age ’ is there once more : glimmering in the distance , just out of sight , back over the next hill , twenty years ago , ‘ before the war ’ . |
| 3 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 4 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 5 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 6 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 7 | Look back over the last week and count the number of " risk-decisions " you or your team took . |
| 8 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 9 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 11 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 12 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 14 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |