Sentence examples for had gone backwards from inspiring English sources

I said a lot of the agenda had gone backwards.

During the last 20 years in England, social mobility had gone backwards, Gove said.

Pearson said school attendance rates had gone backwards in recent years after a peak of 75% in early 2011.

"We will rescue the NHS from this government," he said, claiming health services had gone backwards under the Tory government.

We'd started out as an independent couple, with our own routines and our freedom, and had gone backwards.

Arriving at an EU leaders' summit on Thursday evening that threatened to be overshadowed by the Greek crisis, Merkel said Greece had "gone backwards" on some issues.

We have gone backwards.

"England has gone backwards.

Labour has gone backwards on climate change.

But this achievement, too, has gone backwards.

"We have gone backwards instead of forwards.