Sentence examples for about three centuries of from inspiring English sources

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

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.

The failure to reach agreement with the U.S. gave the militarist faction of Japan's leadership greater sway, and there were angry outbursts in the Japanese press about "five centuries of white invasion" of Asia.

"Mission Drift," a sprawling musical epic about five centuries of American expansion and destruction, is the kind of frisky theatrical adventure that would be twice as much fun at about half the length.

That moment crystallized about two centuries of American history.

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.

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 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.

By the 15th century, the City of Westminster had been the seat of government administration for about three centuries.

TO HEAR some tell it, Scotland is about to celebrate three centuries of union with England and Wales by breaking away from Great Britain.