Example sentences of "go [adv] 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 Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way !
6 Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother .
7 well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ?
8 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
9 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 .
10 She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’
11 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
12 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 ’ .
13 For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way .
14 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
15 The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way .
16 This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 .
17 ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’
18 Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think .
19 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
20 Goes back a long way I 'm afraid .
21 I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time .
22 so she goes back a long way .
23 Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way .
24 The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’
25 ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly .
26 Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway .
27 We go up a long , but steepish , slope and pause to catch our breath and share the experience .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way .
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