Sentence examples for be about five generations from inspiring English sources

We take contemporary timescale to be about five generations, or 20 25 years (assuming a generation time of 4 5 years for leopards) and the historical timescale to be several hundreds of years before present (YBP).

For his information, there are about three generations of contemporary African-American and Hispanic writers who have successfully captured the rhythms of jazz in their work.

The laws are believed to be about two generations older than the Code of Hammurabi; the differences between the two codes help illuminate the development of ancient law.

The mutation appears to be about ten generations (or a couple hundred years) old, whereas the oldest oral historical records of kuru only go back to the early 20th century.

There are about three years between generations of black snakes, so it has taken fewer than 25 generations for the snakes to battle back.

Lenny Henry (who stars in the show) says it is about three generations of Jamaican men.

The play, which has three scenes happening simultaneously all the time, is about three generations of women.

The book is about three generations of tormented men, living in Australia, and "has a feel both for beauty and for the ugliness of inherited pain".

Currently, the Chinese are about three generations behind the state-of-art chip making technologies used by world leaders such as the United States, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Lorraine Hansberry's landmark drama -- it was the first play written by an African-American woman to appear on Broadway -- is about three generations of one family, the Youngers, on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950's.

All MPs and all journalists present are white Henry said that the show, which is about three generations of Jamaican men, works just as well for black and white audiences.