Sentence examples for a few back from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a few back" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It is often used informally in spoken language to refer to a short time ago or a few moments earlier.
Example: "I saw him a few back at the coffee shop."
Alternatives: "a little while ago" or "a short time ago."

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A few back Mr. Falco's view.

Afterwards, the Team Guys, Elf, Steve, Sean and others tipped a few back in your honor.

"We'd seen them earlier and knew they were a few back," Merrick said.

I said to myself, Agent Lee's smoking a few back there and I'm not inclined to bother the man.

Maybe this is what's really required to grapple with the years ahead of you and start clawing a few back.

"Whatever step forward I took, I was always able to take a few back and sabotage it," he said.

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He also supplied a few back-stories that are not in the catalog.

Young & Rubicam, its ad agency, has a few back-up ideas, some including jugglers, but the winning one involves animals.

After a few back-and-forths, the pregnant woman made the man with the cane take the seat, because she was getting off at the next station.

A system like this, Brill estimates, based on a few back-of-the-envelope calculations, could slice twenty per cent off the private-sector health-care bill.

It is common for business messages to appear entirely in lower case, and many rapid-fire correspondences evolve from formal to intimate in a few back-and-forths.

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