Sentence examples for a span of centuries from inspiring English sources

Through a series of speech permutations over a span of centuries, this name became Istanbul.

Mr Clark reckons that even in famously mobile Sweden, some 70-80% of a family's social status is transmitted from generation to generation across a span of centuries.

Today several Internet sites, including one operated by Sky & Telescope (www.skyandtelescope.com), have free online systems that can generate charts for any point on Earth at any time over a span of centuries.

A wood sculpture that portrays decomposing wood will itself decompose over a span of centuries.

Taken together, the above data suggest a consistently more secular culture for the families of the LPK lineage compared to their more orthodox Kudtari neighbors, over a span of centuries.

British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies colonies, protectorates, and other territories that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government.

These three narrative threads, taking place over a span of nearly two centuries, set the scene for The Son, a novel that is an epic in the truest sense of the word: massive in scope, replete with transformations in fortune and fate, and drenched in the blood of war.

The invasions and the civil wars worked in combination to disrupt and weaken the empire over a span of half a century.

Yttria, the first rare earth to be discovered, turned out to be a mixture of oxides from which, over a span of more than a century, nine elements yttrium, scandium (atomic number 21), and the heavy lanthanide metals from terbium (atomic number 65) to lutetium (atomic number 71)—were separated.

As our increasingly connected world has brought the once-remote Southern Ocean and Antarctica closer to human populations than ever before, the 50-million-year history of penguins and albatross has been brought to the precipice in a span of a mere quarter century.

Over the span of centuries, this had a very big impact.