Example sentences of "goes back a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 2 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 3 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 6 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 7 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 8 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 9 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 10 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 11 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 12 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 13 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 16 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |