Sentence examples for about three centuries from inspiring English sources

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

For example, these novels span about three centuries, roughly 1700 to 2000.

For about three centuries, this region retained its separate identity in spite of the rise of the more powerful aggregated Saxon stem duchy.

Settle -- best known for "The Beulah Quintet," five historical novels about three centuries of Virginians -- has a keen appreciation of detail herself.

History of the Frisians, who are thought to have come from the Scandinavian peninsula & to have been in residence for about three centuries before the Roman legions arrived in 47 A.D. Two-thirds of the province, which has a population of nearly half a million was once covered by the sea & must constantly be defended against it now, by an elaborate system of dikes, locks & canals.

The Romans had sent emissaries of their own about three centuries earlier to study Greek constitutions, in the course of drawing up their own first set of law codes.

"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.

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).