Sentence examples for built over centuries from inspiring English sources
These nations must in a decade Xerox a way of life that rich countries built over centuries.
We do not lunch on the steps of cathedrals built over centuries.
And there is even less understanding of why they later abandoned the awesome city they had built over centuries.
Roediger and Painter are right to remind us that whiteness was built over centuries on a foundation of deceit and confusion and disguised political imperatives.
And, just as Mr. Polanski's crime was set in a particular era, so too the bishop's hidden life was lodged in a secretive Vatican culture built over centuries.
But The Hague is also famous as the International City of Peace and Justice, a designation that has been built over centuries.
Four drawbridges across the Neva connect the northern and southern parts of the city, while 342 smaller bridges, built over four centuries and made of materials ranging from wood to brick to iron, cross the city's canals and tributaries.
At 1,200 feet above sea level and perched on a hilltop, Orta San Giulio's sacred mount is a complex that includes a series of 20 beautiful chapels built over two centuries and dedicated to the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
The structures have been built over two centuries and have been effective at safeguarding certain beaches.
The Palacio Nacional de Sintra, easily identified by its towering twin white chimneys, has been built over the centuries, while on a mountain above the town, the mystical Palacio da Pena looms.
