Sentence examples for centuries beforehand from inspiring English sources
It is, moreover, frankly possible and even constructive for the surviving majority, restored to deserved independence and membership in the greatest unions of democratic states in history, to show non-ethnocentric understanding about the genocide of a minority that had contributed mightily to their country for some six centuries beforehand.
The governor was referring to the annexation of Mapuche land in Araucanía more than 100 years ago by the young Republic of Chile land that they had defended from Spanish conquistadors for centuries beforehand.
Liberation Army Daily, alluding to China's acute sense of past humiliations at the hands of foreigners, wrote: "The War to Resist America and Aid Korea was a settling of accounts with the Opium War of over a century beforehand".
The pay-off has been four magnificent volumes, collectively known as The Years of Lyndon Johnson, that paint a picture of a political colossus who propelled himself from soul-destroying poverty to the presidency via a grip on the US Senate that hadn't been matched for a century beforehand or the half-century since.
Presumably the systems that had been in place for this kind of stuff for at least a century beforehand still worked fine.
There was the 'sailing carriage' that appeared by at least the Ming dynasty in the 16th century (although it could have been known beforehand).
Did anybody bother figuring out beforehand what a bridge to the twenty-first century was going to cost?... CON-STRUCTION FOREMAN: To build a bridge across time instead of just across a river, bay, inlet-it was thrilling.
The Kolossi Castle in Limassol was impressive-looking, though if you didn't read about it beforehand, you would never know it was a 13th-century castle that once housed the Knights Templar – no pamphlets, signs or guides available.
The report's most dramatic conclusion, heavily trailed beforehand, is that the range of warming over the next century is likely to be between 1.4°C and 5.8°C.
And what if, to make it all special in that 21st-century way, the locations of these matches were posted on Twitter just a couple of hours beforehand?
