Sentence examples similar to a thousand years behind it from inspiring English sources

"We are fifty to a hundred years behind the advanced countries," he declared in 1931.

Even for a city with two thousand years behind it, 2012 will be a remarkable one for London.

And although current headlines celebrate its healthful properties, tea has more than a thousand years of aesthetic pleasures behind it as well.

"I think I'm two years behind," he said.

We're five years behind, but catching up".

Afraid to fall three years behind?

"I asked myself how a car with just a battery can compete in the marketplace against one with a gas engine and a hundred years of technology and development behind it," he says.

It is now expected to reach full deployment by 2013, five years behind its original schedule.

The vote took place two years behind schedule; it was postponed in 2009 by King Abdullah.

Sister Megan and the others now faced a possible thirty-five years behind bars.

China is still five years behind us, but it's gaining.