Sentence examples for went back decades from inspiring English sources

It was jewelry shops where relationships went back decades and women custom-drew designs.

Inside the boxes were trinkets and memories that went back decades.

The blanket use of "escaped slaves" fails to point out that among the Seminoles were descendant Africans whose presence among them went back decades.

To be fair, D.F.W. had taken swipes at Ellis in the past and, as Gerald Howard pointed out at Salon, the tension between the two authors went back decades.

McConnell's litany of offenses went back decades; ten minutes into the speech, he was still railing about Bill Clinton's nominees, with a particular animus toward Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, he said, was confirmed despite her "notably extreme views".

Until a few days earlier, Al Abakkaa had been employed at the State Organization for Oil Marketing, which oversees Iraq's oil exports, but the American military had failed to secure somo headquarters with troops, and it had been looted and set on fire; sales records that went back decades were destroyed.

Controversy goes back decades.

"Go back decades," he says.

Ms Martin says problems go back decades.

Anecdotal evidence of unfairness goes back decades.

"Going back decades," Ms. Cattrall said.