Sentence examples for centuries spent from inspiring English sources
Despite centuries spent mapping the body's nervous circuitry, scientists had never noticed a nerve specific for itch.
They have learned from centuries spent making peace with neighbors and magistrates who viewed Catholics as subversives with dangerous religious loyalties.
Venice is already so packed, "one can barely walk around the streets anymore," said Guido Ferro, whose company has been dabbling in the hotel business here after centuries spent in glass furnaces.
After centuries spent working on individual equations, they began to concentrate more on the patterns and symmetries to be found in different types of equations and their solutions.Specific problems were replaced by general theories, with spectacular success.
They cast a long shadow over what, overall, has been one of the most impressive periods in Spanish history as the country emerged from the darkness of dictatorship and from centuries spent slipping further and further behind the rest of Europe.Juan Carlos had wanted to imitate Britain's Queen Elizabeth and hold out, hoping that his popularity might return in time.
We've already had what little apology we are going to get (none in most cases) for the raped children, the Aids-sufferers in Africa, the centuries spent attacking Jews, science, women and "heretics", the indulgences and more modern (and tax-deductible) methods of fleecing the gullible to build the Vatican's vast fortune.
Nor did his taste for Irish whiskey ever leave him, despite half a century spent in France.
Except for his fellow service-academy graduate Dwight Eisenhower, no President of the twentieth century spent more years in uniform than Carter.
His Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which lost power in 2000 having ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century, spent its 12 years in opposition relentlessly banging on about its usurpers' amateurishness.
On current form, though, Scotland looks more like Ireland, where governments in the last century spent huge sums vainly trying to revive Irish the third living Celtic language in the British Isles.
ReprintsAstronomers of the 19th century spent decades searching for a planet within Mercury's orbit, and confidently named it after the fireloving Roman god of smiths even before they found it.
