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The phrase "abolished back" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to express the idea of reversing or nullifying a previous action, but it lacks clarity and proper usage.
Example: "The law was abolished back in 2010, but its effects are still felt today."
Alternatives: "repealed" or "nullified."
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Those price controls were abolished back during the Reagan administration.
"My main concern at the moment is that people seemed to have missed the point that we have a national curriculum, although we no longer have a curriculum authority because it was abolished back in 2011, and we have a national curriculum that doesn't apply to all schools, it doesn't apply to Park View academy trust because they are academy schools and they are outside the curriculum.
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On the agenda is the so-called Working Time Directive (WTD) and the future of the UK's opt-out from the provision in this Directive which limits the working week to 48 hours – which the European Parliament voted to abolish back in December 2008.
Last week, the current home secretary Theresa May announced that the UKBA would be abolished and absorbed back into the main Home Office.
Farm support programs would be a major target, and most economists agree that those payments should be abolished or pared back significantly.
However, detailed analyses in these studies also indicated that repair of 8-oxoG in OGG1 cells was not completely abolished suggesting a back up for the repair of this lesion in the absence of OGG1.
Italy abolished the relation-back effect in 1942.
The BBC Trust gave early backing to the idea, saying the BBC's in-house quotas should be cut back or abolished.
The current boards will be abolished, their powers transferred back to the centre.
You are proud to have abolished coursework and gone back to the exams that I sat in the 1960s.
While the policy was once bi-partisan, it is no longer, with senior Liberal government figures calling for it to be frozen, wound back or abolished.
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