Example sentences of "back about [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been growing at a fairly significant rate considering we 've only been back about five years . |
| 2 | That little bottle with the plastic spoon attached , it had just taken him back about five years . |
| 3 | ‘ In the Empire it is thought that the history of mankind goes back about five million years . ’ |
| 4 | And she came back about five minutes after she went and you can call me . |
| 5 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
| 6 | We got back about four o'clock . |
| 7 | It was di , he used to , he he he 'd got an office in London , and he went every day to London , catch the train about twelve o'clock , catch the train back about four . |
| 8 | You see yo really you 'd need to be you 'd need to be only need to be paying back about four grand you see , though ? |
| 9 | Oh yeah , you can go and see coming back about four o'clock . |
| 10 | The left wing , though still attached to the fuselage , had been almost completely sheared off between the inner engine and the fuselage and was angled back about thirty degrees from normal . |
| 11 | I 'll be back about five-thirty , I expect . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll be back about nine . ’ |
| 13 | And come back about nine o'clock the Saturday night . |
| 14 | If we go back about two years , a little bit more than two years now , we sat down and considered those areas which were most important to us in developing a new accounting package . |
| 15 | This is what seems to have happened early in the history of the Earth , because the oldest known fossil remains of proteinoid globules are believed to date back about 4 billion years . |
| 16 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 17 | And it goes back about six or seven foot does n't it usually ? |
| 18 | Yes , absolutely , because I said I 'd have Jake back about six at home |
| 19 | POLICE battled to hold back about 200 shrieking fans as Michael Jackson arrived in Japan today on the final leg of his ill-starred Dangerous Asian concert tour . |
| 20 | ‘ I got back about six-thirty and I have n't been out again . ’ |
| 21 | As I look around at this beautiful countryside I 'm , my mind drifts back about forty years . |
| 22 | Yeah , Lorraine was saying oh we can bring her back about seven . |
| 23 | In Dwing , a village in the high Garhwal Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh , women walk at least 10 kilometres three out of four days , for an average of seven hours per day , to bring back about 25 kg of wood with each headload . |
| 24 | ‘ We have moved the engine back about 12 inches and that 's improved the handling considerably . |
| 25 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 26 | Then she phoned back about ten minutes later and she said wondered if we could come at eleven o'clock in the morning . |
| 27 | Erm , this is story a that goes back about twenty , twenty one years ago . |
| 28 | Put it on a very low one so when you come back about twenty past two whack it up and by sort of say three o'clock , quarter past three you can sit down and eat your grub dinner . |