That fact goes a long way toward explaining why the nature of the business cycle appears to have changed.

The drop in crime may go a long way toward explaining this finding.

Knowing the conditions surrounding them goes quite a long way toward explaining the results.

But that didn't go all the way toward explaining her sudden passion for this game.

It figures in every arms race and may go a long way toward explaining why cold wars become hot ones.

The history of Yugoslavia goes a long way toward explaining those differences.

But it goes a long way toward explaining why the two men are so close.

"That would certainly go a long way toward explaining his three strange kids."

That went quite some way toward explaining things, all right.

That would go a long way toward explaining her attitude, he decided.