Sentence examples for centuries old for from inspiring English sources

And the close may be haunted by the eponymous Mary King - there are ghost stories centuries old, for which the swamp gas drifting up from the lake provides the most plausible explanation - but she was no tragic medieval waif starving in squalor and darkness.

Several studies have amplified microsatellite markers from more recent museum specimens (i.e. decades to a few centuries old), for example to investigate a loss of genetic biodiversity resulting from recent environmental changes e.g., [44], [45] [47].

The architect, Arthur Loomis Harmon, covered the mass with irregular yellowy-tan brick, roughened as if centuries old, and for details, drew from Romanesque, Byzantine, early Christian, Lombard and other styles.

The charge, "Know thyself," is centuries old, but for today's leaders, it has never been more important.

A few words are known in all of these eastern Iranian languages from as early as the 2nd to the 4th century ce, but substantial evidence begins for Sogdian in the 4th century, for Saka probably no earlier than the 7th century (though that for Tumshuq may be a few centuries older), and for Khwārezmian not until the 12th century and later.

The King James is four centuries old this year, an occasion for tributes and conferences and exhibits.

"The things we used from the public domain are centuries old," said John Dryer, a spokesman for Disney.

We have an historical opportunity to find a just and democratic solution for the centuries old political conflict.

The invalid known as 502 Canal Street is nearly two centuries old, which is practically antediluvian for anything man-made in Manhattan.

Of course, amongst numerous other factors, the central political act needed to lend credence to such a posture would be a prompt suspension of the nearly half-century old prohibition for American companies to sell crude oil into international markets.

Any gay person who watched as "death panels" almost torpedoed the century old fight for health care reform knows how the right wing will twist the truth and demonize LGBT Americans during a debate on employment discrimination.