Sentence examples for built up over generations from inspiring English sources
The village's wealth, which had been built up over generations, seems impossible to get back.
"It's been built up over generations and decades, but we need to step forward and reflect what kids are going through today".
What Erdrich knows is that this history, built up over generations, yields a kind of claustrophobia that has only one cure: Leave.
But Camden's decision to remake perhaps the most essential public service for a city riven by crime underscores how communities are taking previously unimaginable steps to get out from under union obligations that built up over generations.
Our endowment has been built up over generations to advance the academic mission of the university, and we must resist, in almost all cases, the temptation to manage these precious funds to further social or political causes, no matter how worthy.
"I want to stress again that Australia and Turkey, the peoples of both countries, have a tremendous relationship, built up over generations; and the Turkish Australian community … you'll find no finer community in Australia, one of the many, many migrant communities that have built Australia.
Does anyone care that the park's reputation -- built up over decades and generations -- is being permanently damaged?
It refers to many things but clearly to opportunities one has to achieve success through family, wealth, contacts and connections, built up over years and generations.
Indeed, this would seem to be inherent in the very definition of cumulative culture: if beneficial modifications are successively built up over time, then people in later generations will, by definition, have more accumulated knowledge to acquire than people in earlier generations.
