date back
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Prosecutors previously told the court they could be ready for trial by October 2027 but were willing to move that date back to January 2028 to avoid the holiday period.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Reports of unidentified Prionus larvae damaging blueberry roots date back to 2010, but researchers had struggled to determine which species was responsible.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
The last substantial changes to the plan date back to 1995 for much of the watershed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The roots of the crisis at Weil date back more than a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Polynesians living on Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, had a unique script of which the earliest preserved examples date back only to about A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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