Example sentences of "goes [adv prt] a long " in BNC.

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1 US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses .
2 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
3 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 .
4 She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’
5 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
6 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 ’ .
7 For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way .
8 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
9 The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way .
10 This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 .
11 ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’
12 Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think .
13 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
14 Goes back a long way I 'm afraid .
15 I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time .
16 so she goes back a long way .
17 Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way .
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