Sentence examples for In some centuries from inspiring English sources

We may be short of composers, and in some centuries thin on painters, but we have whole teams of top-class writers.

These legal constructs enabled traders to raise money for long-distance expeditions, and were in some ways centuries ahead of their time.

After refurbishing the barns, they hauled in some centuries-old buildings from elsewhere on the property and built several new structures to create a town that today is so quintessentially Wild West, Wyatt Earp would feel at home.

His mind is deep in some other century.

The sexual revolution, only a decade past, seemed by 1989, as if it had happened in some other century in some other city.

Not much use to the woman who'd mislaid them in some second-century crush.

As always, the first half, dealing with sexual imperialism in some 19th-century colonial outpost, proves vibrantly funny.

In some 20th-century harpsichords, a 16-foot register, sounding an octave lower, is added, but this addition was extremely rare in old harpsichords.

(In some 19th-century ballets the corps women are deliberately identical figures — Wilis, swans, spirits — a kind of collective echo of the heroine and her plight).

A claim cited in some 19th-century biographies that he was knighted turned out to be false when his will was discovered early in the 20th century.

There is broad consensus that it is the worst in centuries; some say in more than a millennium.