Sentence examples for centuries to develop from inspiring English sources

"It took centuries to develop it".

But it took the Western world centuries to develop its wealth and democratic institutions.

In overtaking London, New York achieved a status that London had taken centuries to develop.

A musical culture takes centuries to develop; it can be destroyed in a decade.

"As a visual language emoji has already far eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor which took centuries to develop," says Evans.

"You will be removing biomass that took centuries to develop, and in carving out these large ponds, that biomass will be forever lost and replaced by standing water".

The Welsh arrived in the early 19th century to develop the mineral resources in several regions of Ohio.

But if that's true, why did it take Italian artists well into the 14th century to develop what Carcione came upon through intuition?

From a slate-wiping fresh start, places such as Brasília and Chandigarh needed a full half-century to develop anything like a life of their own.

Plant breeders have tried for a quarter of a century to develop crops that are immune to the disease by crossing maize with partially resistant native grasses.

More than 170,000 fuel stations now distribute gasoline around the country, and millions of miles of pipelines and thousands of tanker trucks feed into a huge system that took more than a century to develop.