Example sentences of "back a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 2 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 3 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 4 | Of course such a supper , minus the wine , she might have eaten on any of the evenings ( and they now stretched back a long way ) when she found herself alone . |
| 5 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 6 | They go back a long way . |
| 7 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 8 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 9 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 10 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 11 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 12 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 13 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 14 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
| 15 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 16 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 17 | We go back a long way . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 19 | Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear . |
| 20 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 21 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 22 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 23 | We go back a long way , he and I. " |
| 24 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 25 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 26 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 27 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 28 | His memories go back a long , long way . ’ |
| 29 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 30 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |