Sentence examples for almost three centuries from inspiring English sources

For almost three centuries Christians provoked in Roman authorities puzzlement, exasperation, and intermittent persecution.

American democracy is a fragile flame that has burned brightly for almost three centuries.

And yet his entry in Scottish history books will be large, as the man who finally brought back a Scottish parliament almost three centuries after it was dissolved in the Union with England.

It met with crushing exclusion for almost three centuries, which could well have led to suffocation, when the Normans came and for centuries refused to leave their French behind.

For almost three centuries, novels featuring individuals who leave their homes and struggle for a place in a changing world kept the myth of modernization alive, renewing its promise of a future state of economic plenitude.

The Swedish Chamber Orchestra gives two Proms in one day, presenting Bach's six Brandeburg Concertos alongside six newly commissioned companion works by Uri Caine, Brett Dean, Anders Hillborg, Olga Neuwirth, Steven Mackey and Mark-Anthony Turnage, creating a brand-new musical cycle spanning almost three centuries.

For almost three centuries of settlement in the valley, local water supplies were considered abundant.

Almost three centuries later, Britons are still paying interest on a small part of that obligation.

Julian's manuscript survived for almost three centuries in the care of nuns before it was finally published in 1670.

While the famous and yet mysterious Maya collapse took place at about 900 ce, in many other regions this downfall occurred almost three centuries earlier.

Halley's Comet, also called Comet Halley, the first comet whose return was predicted and, almost three centuries later, the first to be imaged up close by interplanetary spacecraft.