Sentence examples for ideas back then from inspiring English sources

I can't say I understood much of his ideas back then, but I understood enough to be mute with fascination.

Michael Palin's ideas – back then, as so often in his career – were considerably ahead of their time.

Lots of things considered good ideas back then are no longer considered quite so clever: system-built high-rise flats as the answer to slum housing; nuclear power to meet energy needs.

We had no idea back then in 1968 that we'd end up making 80 programmes.

Trouble was, I had no idea back then what that change was.

We decided we must do something, but had no idea back then how much the odds were stacked against us.

Acrylic furniture was a new idea back then, but Rubinstein was nothing if not a confident patron.

You started performing in the 1950s … did you have any idea back then that you'd still be releasing music in 2014?

He says they had no idea, back then, about how the larger middle- and working-class area would evolve into a premier address.

Old-time RPGs did not adhere to that idea: back then, "fun" was what you made it and you were not guaranteed to have any.

He liked having colleagues who cared about Lebanon, about the language, the history of the place; that was what we talked about when we met for drinks on Gemmayze Street, or at his house in southern Lebanon (this was before he'd written a book about it; the place was little more than a few stones and an idea back then).