Sentence examples for goes back ages from inspiring English sources
While the tradition of Jews wearing black headgear goes back ages (it was a sign of mourning for the loss of Jerusalem), it wasn't until the 1960s that ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, as well as Chabad-Lubavitch Jews, began wearing the black fedora to distinguish themselves.
Despite a history going back ages, and despite occasional grim successes, germ weapons have never played decisive roles in warfare or terrorism.
Yielding to a great power goes back to the age of Chinese domination, when Korea was forced to adopt the policy of sadaechuui ("serving the great").
It goes back to the age-old mantra of making sure your communications are tailored to your audiences and local contexts.
It really all goes back to the age-old idea of trying to be all things to all people — once a brand starts to do this, it falls into a trap that experts warn about.
That goes back to the age of Pepys, when the greatest feast day of the holiday then was not Christmas Day but Epiphany, Twelfth Night, the occasion for the greatest feasting and revelry.
As exhibit A of the second category, there is petty Anglo-French bickering, good-humoured or otherwise, which goes back to the Middle Ages.
Evidence of human inhabitation in the area goes back to the Bronze Age.
"He retires at the normal age, goes back to Stratford, buys houses, gets involved in disputes about rent.
It goes back to the stone age: neolithic skulls have been found with holes punched out of them.
