Sentence examples for centuries to complete from inspiring English sources

The Russian experiments on plutonium decomposition demonstrated reactions that take centuries to complete: roughly 11,000 years at room temperatures.

The medieval cathedrals pushed the limits of available technology, involved the craftsmanship of literally thousands of skilled workers, and took generations (and sometimes centuries) to complete.

An actual human launching is at least a couple of centuries away and, barring the invention of Star Trek-like warp drives, could take additional centuries to complete.

As with nearly all of Brecht's big plays written in exile, Mother Courage is set at one of the many transitional historical moments when the medieval is yielding to the mercantile (a process it took centuries to complete, if indeed it's completed even now).

Yet, he said, "they are so difficult to prove". "The only way to prove them seems to be by very, very indirect means," he said, adding that he thought it would take "decades at the very least, maybe centuries," to complete the Langlands program.

The Swiss have managed it, but only after infighting and the passage of centuries to complete the Confoederatio Helvetica in a small, compact country with a more or less uniform lifestyle, ethnicity and traditions, plus a single currency (despite using three languages).The European Union is young.

This was immensely hard work that took most of a century to complete in places such as Italy, Germany and Greece.

Oxfam said it could take more than a century to complete essential rebuilding of homes, schools and health facilities in Gaza, because the blockade was hampering the arrival of basic building materials.

The fact that it took him more than half a century to complete his biography of Slade has a lot to do with the changing nature of his livelihood, the written word.

Tottenham is a club littered with history; from becoming the first side in the 20th century to complete the League and FA Cup double, which they did in 1961, to becoming the first English side to lift a major European trophy when they won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1963.

This engineering miracle took half a century to complete from design through construction; and has been rocketing skyward since 2006.