Sentence examples for understood back then from inspiring English sources

"These are the songs we all remember from our infancy onward because our parents listened to them constantly: passionate, emotional songs that we may not have fully understood back then," said the producer, songwriter and arranger Julio Reyes, who worked on the record with Mr. Anthony.

"Parenting" in its contemporary sense was not a concept most fathers would have understood back then, but if it was pride that first made him fight to keep his children, he then plunged right ahead with fatherhood, striding up its trail at full bore.

Jacobson dismisses as poppycock the notion that noncoding DNA was understood back then.

I wish I understood back then that I don't have to be grateful for being treated with the same respect as other people – and that I definitely needn't feel obliged to talk about my genitals to random people at parties".

I wish I understood back then that I don't have to be grateful for being treated with the same respect as other people and that I definitely didn't need to feel obliged to talk about my genitals to random people at parties".

I think I was too young to understand back then: I thought of time as a steadily growing tree that I hadn't yet started climbing.

A truth I didn't fully understand back then.

What I didn't understand back then is how movies differ from books.

Crude as it was by today's standards, he understood that, back then, it would have been Quite Something.

Mr. Abtahi, who has not been heard from since his arrest on June 16, understood even back then just how vulnerable he was, Mr. Memarian recalled.

I didn't understand it back then and still don't understand it today.