Sentence examples for about six centuries from inspiring English sources

In England it was a gradual process, beginning about 1000 ad when it was stimulated by a paucity of first names—and lasting about six centuries.

The territory of modern Switzerland was a part of the Roman Republic and Empire for a period of about six centuries, beginning with the step-by-step conquest of the area by Roman armies from the 2nd century BC and ending with the decline of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

"I call him a kid because he's younger than me by about eight centuries".

For about seven centuries after the conversion of England to Christianity (beginning in the 3rd century), the common man had no direct access to the text of the Scriptures.

But the cesium 137 in the spent fuel has a half-life of 30 years, meaning it would take about two centuries to diminish its levels of radioactivity down to 1 percent.

Humans have been selectively breeding horses for several thousand years, and thoroughbreds for racing for about three centuries.

Use of solar energy for cooking is a mature technology dating back about four centuries although rarely considered as an alternative today [55].

The school continued to develop for about four centuries, reaching its heights with the works of Raghunātha, Jagadīśa and Gadādhara (Ganeri 2014).

Teleosts constitute more than 99%% of living actinopterygian fishes and fossil teleosts have been studied for about two centuries.

The Lambakannas ruled for about four centuries.

For about two centuries Zhou China enjoyed stability and peace.