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Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.

He was on vacation, but now he’s back.

I’d like to find a back issue of that magazine.

They took a back road.

They still owe three months' back rent.

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The vowel of lot has a back vowel in most dialects of England.