Example sentences of "[noun] go back [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way .
2 Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ?
3 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 ’ .
4 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
5 Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way .
6 His memories go back a long , long way . ’
7 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 .
8 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
9 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
10 After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way .
11 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
12 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 .
13 The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way .
14 The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way .
15 The arch-rivals go back a long way .
16 ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’
17 For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way .
18 The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century .
19 Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way .
20 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 .
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