Sentence examples for centuries range from from inspiring English sources
The nearly 50 maps on view from the 16th and 17th centuries range from crude, ill-informed endeavors to models of accuracy for their day.
These evocative spots, established between the seventeenth and the first half of the 20th centuries, range from antique pharmacies and stationer and bookstores to restaurants and pastry shops.
Professor Frisch is a specialist in the music of composers from the Austro-German sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Schubert to Schoenberg.
His music is thick with reminiscences of sounds of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, ranging from Strauss and Stravinsky to Revueltas and Villa-Lobos, with echoes of recent John Adams thrown in.
These same objects, found in fiction and mythology, have entertained us for centuries, ranging from King Arthur's Excalibur and the Norse god Thor's legendary hammer, Mjölnir, to Game of Thrones' Valyrian Steel and Harry Potter's Sword of Gryffindor.
Erosion rates in the latter part of the 20th Century range from 0.6 to 0.7 Mg ha− 1 year− 1.
Techno-cities of the twentieth century range from factory towns in Mussolini's Italy to the Disney creation of Celebration, Florida.
We will see migration on a scale the world has never experienced: United Nations and World Bank estimates of how many people will be forcibly displaced by the middle of this century range from the tens to the hundreds of millions.
Forecasts for sea level rise this century range from 2 to 7 feet (.6 to 2.1 metres), with most estimates centering around 3 to 4 feet (.9 to 1.2 metres), given a projected rise in global temperature of at least 2 to 3 degrees F (1.1 to 1.6 degrees C), Strauss said.
Estimates for the total number employed at the end of the 18th century range from 1,200 to 5,000, with women and children constituting up to half the total number of people working in copper mining and a lower proportion in the less labour-intensive tin mining.
Estimates of the amount of sea-level rise over the coming century range from 0.2 to 0.6 m (Parry et al. 2007).
