In Silicon Valley, everyone is from somewhere else; in Guadalajara, families stretch back generations.
The two departments have a long history of competition that stretches back generations.
Winemaking stretches back generations in the family, so Mr. Philipponnat takes a long view.
Our family has a tale stretching seven generations from the present to slavery in Jamaica in the 1700s following the female line.
Ms. Collins, 51, comes from a line of politicians stretching back generations in the town of Caribou, Me., where she was raised.
That is surely discouraging news to many parents, particularly those with powerful friends, or others, known as legacies, with roots stretching back generations at top colleges.
Eager for some real-life fodder for their next play, the two actors attended an auction at Storage Deluxe hoping to buy a container full of old items that might unfold a sweeping romantic tale stretching back generations.
But in 1980 two folklorists, Fred C. Fussell and George Mitchell, were astonished to find it still being performed — a robust modern link in a chain stretching back generations — in Bolden, a coastal area in McIntosh County, Ga.
On Sunday, 50 years after the Giants first entertained a young Kraft, the Giants and the Patriots — their entanglement stretching through generations and championships, shared philosophy and similar results — will be together again, facing off in the Super Bowl.
And his family history, with a line of Tory MPs on his mother's side stretching back generations, gave him an implicit Conservatism and a freedom to be pragmatic that his more doctrinaire contemporaries found enviable.
