Sentence examples for a generation back from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a generation back" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time period that is one generation ago, often in discussions about history, family, or cultural changes.
Example: "The traditions we follow today were passed down from our ancestors, but many of them were lost a generation back."
Alternatives: "one generation ago" or "a generation earlier".

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"A generation back".

Some of our Lewis family's parents were raised in the blackhouses, only a generation back.

England's selectors are paranoid about being labelled as fickle as they undoubtedly were a generation back.

A generation back, the remembrances were of distant horror — a drum-beat resonating over the hill of history.

Probably, a generation back, neither Kate Middleton nor Prince William would have felt the need to become graduates.

And they were quite a bit higher than those of students of the same age a generation back.

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Part of Green Vision's mission is to create the economic conditions that will attract a younger generation back to a high-altitude, rural existence.

The task of taking on a tarnished legacy and giving a gun-shy generation back their childhood memories could have broken a lesser man.

I asked Oona King which side of her heritage storytelling came from - her father a black activist, her mother Miriam Stoppard's sister (so one generation back, a traditional Jewish home).

And the mother is doing this -- not because she's filled with hate and wants to destroy her son's fragile self-esteem -- but because a few generations back a young black man with skills would be sold off to another plantation at a good price and his mother would never see him again.

E-motos could be a way to change that by bringing some segment of a more tech savvy younger generation back to motorcycles.

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