date back
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To have been around since a very long time ago.
"This cathedral dates back to the thirteenth century and is one of the oldest in Europe."
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Said to date back 1,900 years.
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they date back about 750 million years.
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Most of them date back to 1850s.
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They date back to at least Neolithic times.
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of meanings date back to concepts that were