Sentence examples for a previous century from inspiring English sources

I am not in a previous century here.

Even if those principles are stuck in a previous century and mired in bigotry.

"They live in a previous century, unfortunately," Mr. Benn said of the Israeli administration.

He has been told that he was named after a famous Russian author, born in a previous century.

By comparison, Newsweek's vocabulary draws on a previous century, reflecting none of the Web's influence on print design.

Borrowing a bit of historical gravity from a previous century, Representative David Dreier, Republican of California, invoked the struggles that led to the Civil War.

"What a buyer is getting is to live in a previous-century building with a modern interior by a top designer who has a sensibility for loft living," said Shaun Osher, executive vice president of Douglas Elliman, the brokerage firm that is marketing the property.

In the 14th century, the central piers of the crossing were found to be sinking under the weight of the crossing tower which had been damaged by an earthquake the previous century.

At the time Munk was doing his calculations, scientists estimated the world's oceans rose an average of 2 millimeters a year over the previous century.

Echoing the "Robber Barons" of the previous century, a new kind of paternalism emerged, with a "grandiose vision of a technological utopia".

Until I met Pam Wedgwood, I hadn't touched a piano since the previous century.