The idea of citizens hearing legal arguments might date back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

the Dead Sea Scrolls.] And some of them date back to the fourth and third century .So do you understand now why everybody was so excited?

其中一些文卷甚至能够追溯到公元前,三四世纪，所以你们应该明白为什么这么令人兴奋了吧！

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.

有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远，所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Agriculture Report. Official snowfall records for Washington date back to eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

Some of these groups date back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Snowfall records for Washington date back to eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Modern climate records date back to eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Before answering, agent Flannery wanted to make sure his report was up-to-date, so he went to the back of the office and looked into the cage.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

Allowing it to drag on, as other parts of the process already have, would just provide another excuse to push back the poll date.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29