Or in other words, the 14 day advance would take two centuries if it relied on an evolutionary adaptation alone.
For two centuries, advancing knowledge, educating leaders, and cultivating an informed citizenry.
The knowledge of deformation mechanics involved in various forming processes has been systematically advanced over at least two centuries, and is now well established and widely used in manufacturing.
The mind of course lodges in a body whose practices, power and ease go back through two centuries of technological advance to that very revolution.
Two centuries of stunning advances in communications and information technology have brought humanity at last to this.
But the country experienced tremendous catastrophes and advanced amidst turbulence in the later two centuries.
It was so far away--a distance of two centuries, unimaginable technological advances, huge shifts in the culture--yet we still have all these photos, letters, journal entries, telegrams, menus, calling cards, bullets, sketches, sheet music, for god's sake.
By reconquering much of the region, the Komnenoi set back the advance of the Turks in Anatolia by more than two centuries.
The American story for two centuries was one of real wages advancing more or less in line with productivity.
The empire rose as a bulwark against Muslim advances into South India, which it completely controlled for over two centuries.
These advances have led to a recent surge of applications of Bayes's theorem, more than two centuries since it was first put forth.
