Sentence examples for century to develop from inspiring English sources

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?

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.

But it was their respective reputedly masochistic and sadistic traits which could have allowed the two most famous jazz musicians of this century to develop a curiously compatible relationship.

Azerbaijan is a courted by the West for its lucrative oil and gas reserves; it is just over 20 years since BP signed what was dubbed the "contract of the century" to develop the country's vast oil reserves.

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.

"It took centuries to develop it".

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

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

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