Examples of 'back a century' in a sentence

Meaning of "back a century"

back a century: This phrase typically means looking or referring to events, styles, or attitudes from one hundred years ago. It is often used to highlight the historical context of something or to emphasize how far back in time something originated

How to use "back a century" in a sentence

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back a century
They have basically pushed us back a century.
It goes back a century.
It is a procedural loophole that dates back a century.
It may go back a century.
The research relied on rainfall data going back a century.
Some say it dates back a century ago to when English troops would drink.
They will take you back a century.
Rick Steves travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe.
The participants are plunged back a century.
Return to search Looking Back a century of education in Edmonton public schools.
But the history of the building goes back a century further.
Why only go back a century for your treatment?
We might have gone back a century.
Their acts have bathed the world in blood and set civilization back a century.
The cases go back a century.

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This little town with a history going back a millennium, has a tradition of tourism going back a century.
A trend that has come back a century later.
Pillage, famine, disease, widespread rape and social disruption turned the clock back a century.
I saw that its records went back a century and a half.
Yes, well, you know, I think there are other events, before the mutiny, going back a century.
Statistics Netherlands looks back a century his year the Dutch NSI.
In the history of silk production has its roots back a century.
Before that, you have to go back a century to find another occurrence!
French involvement in Algeria stretched back a century.
The origins of this company goes back a century and a half, more specifically the year 1850.
Multiple sites have temperature records that date back a century or longer.
Some say it dates back a century ago What's it got to do wi' Rome?
The history of a school in the Hiram area goes back a century.
The international presence of BBVA now dates back a century.
Piotrków 's Jewish population was expelled in 1578 and only allowed back a century later.

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