Sentence examples for dates back longer from inspiring English sources

The custom dates back longer than indicated, to the time of Moses, about 3,500 years.

Again, you would have to have been in Manchester to experience the way that pulses quicken at the very mention of this meeting, which dates back longer than any supporter has lived.

Over time, many find that their years in the park game date back longer than jobs or spouses.

Ms. Muston estimated that her own fridge, which was in the house when they bought it five years ago and most likely dates back much longer, used 1,300 kilowatt-hours per year, or produced roughly 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide — the same amount from burning 105 gallons of gasoline.

His credentials in Brussels date back even longer, as he came to competition from a stint as EU commissioner for internal market and services (1995-99).

After all, "the war on the yakuza" in Japan dates back to 1965, making it longer and perhaps less fruitful than the war on terror.

The observation that large animals tend to live longer than smaller ones dates back to Aristotle and kicked off speculation about why.

Their equipment dates back to the Soviet era, and much of it is no longer usable.

Although the tournament in its current format dates back 40 years, tennis has been played at the venue for far longer.

A method of culturing ex vivo rat organotypic slices for electrophysiological recordings dates back to 1941 (Levi and Meyer, 1941), but myelination was first reported in longer term cerebellar slices in 1956 (Hild, 1956).

The idea that mothers live much longer than needed for reproduction in order to help their children have more children dates back almost 50 years.