back beyond

collocation in English

meaningsofbackandbeyond

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back
adjective[before noun]
uk
/bæk/us
/bæk/
at or near the back ...
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beyond
preposition
adverb
uk
/biˈjɒnd/us
/biˈjɑːnd/
further away in the distance ...
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(Definition ofbackandbeyondfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The head is tilted slightly back, so that the eyes are turned upward toward thebackbeyondof space.
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The upward trend in illegitimacy, that stretchedbackbeyondthe mid-1950s, was at first slowed and then reversed.
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Does it make sense to gobackbeyondthe institutional paralysis of 1919 and 1920 or the radicalisation of politics provided by the war?
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I regret that information goingbackbeyondthis date can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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Some of its work goesbackbeyondthat.
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If one goesbackbeyondthat point, one could find perhaps 50 such societies.
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If there is antipathy, it rarely goesbackbeyonda generation or so.
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They withdrew their forcesbackbeyondtheir own frontier.
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Private enterprise has a record going wellbackbeyond1951.
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I go back to the past, and it is always a mistake to gobackbeyondthe day of one's birth.
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Indeed, it takes usbackbeyond1904, when the regulations were first applied.
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I cannot gobackbeyondthat fixed date.
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To gobackbeyondthat would be to move into an indefinite period and create all sorts of uncertainty about documentation.
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Units are being reminded that men must not be heldbackbeyondthe due date.
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I regret information goingbackbeyondthis date can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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The figures for bankruptcies gobackbeyondthe last 15 years.
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Therefore, we must gobackbeyondthe year 1939–40 if we are to have anything like a fair basis.
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