Sentence examples for 24 centuries from inspiring English sources

With the benefit of 24 centuries of hindsight, this might strike us as a paradoxical complaint.

MORE than 24 centuries have passed since Socrates was put to death (pictured) on charges that included non-belief in the state religion, and the situation doesn't seem to have changed all that much.

Plato never answers these questions; he doesn't even pose them directly, but simply sets us to wonder -- the reason his Dialogues have thrilled generations for 24 centuries.

But forget about that for a moment and imagine slipping back 24 centuries to the ancient stadium of Olympia in Greece.

Riches and power rule the world!" This, in essence, is the case that Thrasymachus makes to Socrates in the Republic, which has been read for 24 centuries.

Fast forward 14 centuries.

He scored prolifically including some 80 centuries.

But its roots stretch back 14 centuries.

We waited 20 centuries.

117, 14th and 15th centuries.

Other authorities give 199 centuries.