Sentence examples for around two centuries from inspiring English sources

Most modern scholars believe that the ancestors attributed to Harald Hardrada's father, along with other parts of the Fairhair genealogy, are inventions reflecting the political and social expectations of the time of the authors (around two centuries after Harald Hardrada's lifetime) rather than historical reality.

Tribunals must not become an end run around two centuries of constitutional law.

We have witnessed around two centuries of unimpeded acceleration since Stephenson's pioneering railway engine, Rocket, first took to the tracks in 1829.

Playing trance-inducing music may not be the best way to pack a dance floor don't tell that to techno fans but, as Ned said, the African rhythms propelling Vodou music have been rocking bodies all over the Caribbean and, perhaps most notably, in New Orleans for around two centuries now.

Playing trance-inducing music may not be the best way to pack a dance floor — don't tell that to techno fans — but, as Ned said, the African rhythms propelling Vodou music have been rocking bodies all over the Caribbean and, perhaps most notably, in New Orleans for around two centuries now.

For around two centuries after the conquest of Wales, the arrangements established by Edward I for the governance of the country remained in place.

We might ask why for around three centuries in the early modern period painters were applauded chiefly for producing landscapes or even kissing couples that were free of ordinary blemishes.

If something exists for five years here, it's usually assumed to have been around for over two centuries.

The protest poster is something that's been around for two centuries.

This formal stuff hasn't been around for two centuries just because blokes couldn't be bothered wearing anything else.

The greenhouse theory has been around for two centuries, but suddenly became the stuff of newspaper headlines during the hot, dry summer of 1988 in the United States.