Sentence examples for about two centuries from inspiring English sources

It took about two centuries from the appearance of the book to the emergence of what we would now call newspapers – mass communication had arrived.

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.

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

It's about two centuries old.

For about two centuries Zhou China enjoyed stability and peace.

The miasmal theory remained medical orthodoxy for about two centuries.

"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.

A long tradition in political philosophy and economics, dating back about four centuries to Thomas Hobbes, suggests that the amount that a person consumes is the right basis for taxation.

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].