Sentence examples for back for some time from inspiring English sources

The date of that retirement is likely to be pushed back for some time.

Rescuers would not be coming back for some time to pick up anyone who insisted on staying, he said.

Young pangolins are soft-scaled at birth and are carried on the female's back for some time.

Researchers have been pushing back for some time against this notion that children spend too much time in scheduled activities.

He says fear of the unknown held the company back for some time, resulting in various inefficiencies.

Eventually, Grandpa realized that my parents would not be back for some time, and we were all hungry.

Sunderland have been without a specialist left-back for some time, with loan signing Danny Rose having last season plugged a gap.

The Magpies have been trailing the 27-year-old Lille right-back for some time, but have yet to tempt the French club with an offer that comes anywhere near their valuation of him.

For instance, the lower house of Dutch Parliament passed a law in December that banned face veils in some public places, a policy that Wilders has backed for some time.

The big man and Hemingway embraced and pounded each other on the back for quite some time.

By Berry Morgan The New Yorker, July 23 , 1966P. 32 Roxie, a poor country woman, has borrowed $164 from the King's town Bank to cover the expense of her mother's illness and death, and has been unable to pay the money back for quite some time.