Sentence examples for seconds to backtrack from inspiring English sources

Took him about three seconds to backtrack.

If, while you're writing, you realize that you rushed into the story by the second or third chapter, you need to backtrack.

As Italian bond yields fell sharply at the news of the ECB's first intervention, Mr Berlusconi tried to backtrack on his commitments to intensify austerity.If the ECB has been tepid in its support for countries that are solvent, it has been obstructive in its attitude towards the one euro-zone country that is undeniably bust.

He's a little too familiar with Anne at first, and when he has to backtrack and pay appropriate respect it's like watching someone on a suddenly fast-moving treadmill — you don't want him to fall off, especially since he makes a game out of staying on.

This isn't the first time Apple has had to backtrack on highly controversial rules that it's tried to impose on iOS developers.

They calmly packed their lunch for the next day, and suggested that Hunt had always intended to backtrack at the eleventh hour.

But speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Balls sounded like a man that saw a problem in need of solution, and certainly did not want to backtrack at the first sound of gunfire from vice-chancellors.

This is not the first time that Mr. Murdoch has had to backtrack on a Twitter comment.

Just to backtrack, when I first heard they were making a Rocky musical, I have to admit I winced a little bit but as I read more about it, it seemed to make more sense to me.

But to make sense of it, we're going to have to backtrack for a second to earlier in the season (and I, hard as it was, went back and watched an earlier episode).

Their analysis comes as George Osborne has been forced by a Conservative backbench rebellion to backtrack on his plan, first set out in his summer budget, to cut tax credits.