1.   The people there are a little bit backward.

2.   I was slow to walk and talk and my parents thought I was backward.

3.   Mr Rothman said that, in comparison to other European countries, Britain was very backward in granting freedom to roam.

4.   But the Austrians, an efficient, polite and cultured people, are backward in that they have not yet advanced to the school uniform.

5.   Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather, but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development.

6.   At present the Chinese Air Force is woefully backward.

7.   All his threes are backward.

8.   But that is rather backward.

9.   But that is entirely backward.

10.   But that conventional wisdom is entirely backward.