Sentence examples for centuries running from inspiring English sources

World debt during the Depression and nowGOVERNMENTS have been indebted for centuries, running ongoing Ponzi schemes involving tax-payers, investors and future generations.

Over the five centuries running from 1400 to 1900, the slave trade encompassed four distinct waves: the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and trans-Atlantic slave trades.

Volunteers give free 45-minute guided tours of the site every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a focus on the buildings' history, and there are additional docent-led tours through the gallery, currently showing a collection of Indian jewellery from the 1st through 20th Centuries (running until 6 January).

In 2012 he became the first cricketer to score 100 centuries (100 runs in a single innings) in international play.

The show, which includes pieces from the five centuries, runs through today.

If there is one political subject that remains neglected and underestimated because of how we have for centuries run our societies, economies and families, then it is children.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said there is no evidence of forced conversions to Christianity in India, where churches have for centuries run hospitals and schools.

There is evidence that, like some medieval European towns, it was self-governing in the 15th and 16th centuries, run by its leading merchants until they capitulated to the warlord Oda Nobunaga in 1569.

At the 1996 Cricket World Cup, he scored three centuries (100 runs in a single innings).

He scored 29 centuries (100 runs in a single innings) in Test matches against England between 1928 and 1948.

In his career in first-class cricket (1865 1908), Grace scored 54,896 runs, registered 126 centuries (100 runs in a single innings), and, as a bowler, took 2,809 wickets.