Sentence examples for centuries preceding from inspiring English sources

Thus, the feudal society was completely reshaped in the two centuries preceding the Qin unification.

The traditional square Hebrew, or merubbaʿ, pen hand was developed in the centuries preceding the Common Era.

For centuries preceding French occupation and again after independence in 1960, the island was dominated by the Merina, the largest ethnic group.

The fact remains, however, that the ideas that were to prove decisive in the 19th century, so far as the social sciences were concerned, arose during the two centuries preceding.

For the two centuries preceding the American Civil War (1861 65), one historian found documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving 10 or more slaves whose aim was personal freedom.

Recognised by most English-speakers chiefly for its associations with the interwar experiment in democ racy - the 'Weimar Republic' - the city was for the two centuries preceding the Nazi regime a cultural centre not only for German-speakers, but for Europe.

In the United States, it took the better part of the half-century preceding World War II for this to occur.

Gymel seems to have been favoured in England during the 13th century, preceding English descant and thus leaving its mark on the development of English polyphony.

During the quarter of a century preceding his death, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin probably exercised greater political power than any other figure in history.

Its success promoted a period of intense canal construction that established a network of inland waterways serving the Industrial Revolution and contributing to Britain's prosperity in the half-century preceding the railway era, which began in the mid-19th century.

A study by the National Security Archive shows that federal court opinions cited the doctrine three times as often in the decade after 9/11 as in the quarter-century preceding it.