The practice of advertising stretches back not decades but centuries.

There was a huge mob of people stretching back forever along the front wall, waiting to go up to the plaza.

She set the glass aside, started to stretch back out, then remembered.

His memory simply did not stretch back before that moment of awakening.

She laughed in his face and then stretched back out on the couch.

With a taint on her, she thought, that stretched back a generation.

Four even have histories that stretch back a century, give or take.

Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contact stretching back a decade.

The fictional history of the world stretches back some twelve thousand years.

The fossil record of the genus stretches back some 12 million years or so.