Sentence examples for centuries until it was from inspiring English sources

It was mainly thanks to this single book that the Czech literary language was preserved during its suppression for two centuries until it was resuscitated during the national revival.

Big Corn Island was a British protectorate for two centuries until it was ceded to Nicaragua in 1894.

An arch dedicated to the Roman emperor Septimius Severus similarly withstood the centuries until it was brutally demolished last October.

The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria then held the region for four centuries until it was ceded to Scotland in 1018.

It's what's thought to be the Sunken Hundred, the mythical land that lay submerged for centuries until it was revealed by a storm system in 2014.

The changing story of the ball's manufacture falls broadly into well-defined phases, beginning with the "feathery," which was used for centuries until it was superseded by gutta-percha.

Wine Cocaa wine was popular in Europe in the 19th century until it was outlawed.

The party most likely to gain is the Liberal Democratic Party, which governed Japan almost uninterrupted for a half century until it was dislodged in 2009 by the Democrats.

The dynasty strongly resisted the Mughal advance southward in the 17th century until it was extinguished by the Indian emperor Aurangzeb with the capture of Bijapur in 1686.

Lan Xang, also spelled Lan Chang, Laotian kingdom that flourished from the 14th century until it was split into two separate kingdoms, Vien Chang and Luang Prabang, in the 18th century.

An independent commune from 1084, it was ruled by a succession of lords from the 13th century until it was taken by Cesare Borgia in 1499 and incorporated with the Papal States.