if two people go back a particular period of time, they have known each other for that period of time
to have existed since or for a particular time
to return to a person, place, subject, or activity
when schools or students go back, classes begin again after a long holiday
when the clocks go back, everyone changes the time on their clocks so that they show a time that is one hour earlier than before
After one drink they went back to her bedsit.
Don’t forget, the clocks go back this Sunday.
Go back a century or more, and the church will be found at the centre of English village life.
He then got married and yet within a month dumped the new one and went back to the original.
It started to rain, so we decided to go back.
Its origins go back another century.
I’d left my keys in the office and had to go back for them.
I’d like to go back to what Abby was saying just a minute ago.
My interest in the subject goes back many years.
My mind went back a few days to a lady with lung disease.
No one can go back and make things in the past turn out differently than they have.
One thing is for sure: we are not going back to the past.
Otherwise we're going back to the past.
Our way of life may change, but must we go back to the past?
She is likely to find going back to school tough.
She should be well enough to go back to work on Wednesday.
She will have to go back and find out who was responsible.
So would you mind going back to the days when you used a much quieter brush?
Some of these houses go back to the early 19th century.
The computer breaks down and you go back to writing things down on pieces of paper.
The love of cricket goes back at least four generations.
Then lags will be more worried about going back.
They are embroiled in legal compensation battles and four of them went back down the mines to work through sheer necessity.
They want something authentic to go back to.
They went back around five times and are still talking about it a month after our visit.
They were walking away when the woman shouted something and they went back to finish him off.
They've said about me maybe going back there in the future.
To support the claim you will need detailed records going back four years.
We are about to go back to the future.
We can make changes without going back to court.
We didn’t think he’d go back to his wife after everything that’s happened.
We go back a long time, don’t we?
When do the kids go back?
Would you all mind going back down the tunnel and coming out again?
You can go back and change your writing.
Your fear of arguments could go back a long time.
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