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Discover LudwigThe phrase "centuries earlier" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that happened a long time ago, before the present. For example: "My ancestors lived in this area centuries earlier."
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The ships had likely been scuttled and forgotten centuries earlier.
Its last known active period had been four centuries earlier.
In fact, this was known many centuries earlier.
His origin was, however, probably some centuries earlier.
Angina pectoris (see below Angina pectoris) had been recorded centuries earlier.
Cervantes had proved centuries earlier that he did not require his body to survive.
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Nearly two centuries earlier the Dutch had discovered the benefits of citrus fruits and juices to sailors on long voyages.
Two centuries earlier an emperor had called them "empty and useless, and irrelevant to government affairs".Chonghou tried diligently to acquire this useless knowledge.
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini's striking "Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini," carved two centuries earlier, exemplifies the former qualities.
Chinese chronicles attest an Indianized kingdom in Vietnam two centuries earlier.
Two centuries earlier, the Italian humanist Leon Battista Alberti, anticipating Hogarth, emphasizes a similar co-dependence of liveliness and line.
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