Sentence examples for couple generations ago from inspiring English sources
"I think at a very basic level, there's more of a nostalgia for a sense of lost childhood today with people, especially in their 20s and 30s, than people might have had a couple generations ago," says Sternheimer.
Just a couple generations ago, getting hitched in your early 20s was relatively normal, whereas now it's an oddity; only about 10percentt of women and 6percentt of men in America below the age of 24 are married.
That occurred in the early days of the anti-Vietnam War protests a couple generations ago.
Prokofiev's Sonata No. 6, after all, is a piece that would have had an explosive reading a couple of generations ago, and not only from Russian players.
Bali, which first became known as a destination among hippies from the West a couple of generations ago, tuned in and dropped out, at least for the day.
Jay Alvarez seems to be playing a gay man from a couple of generations ago, and the set makes his character's life look sleazy, but the premise is a winner (1 40).
If you start blocking entry from this country or that country, you get to the Smoot-Hawley tariff situation of a couple of generations ago, and we all know the disaster that ensued from that.
Had leaf-blowers been invented a couple of generations ago, this is a metaphor that could well have been used by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who in high-Romantic fashion devoted many a discourse to the proposition that the function of poetry is to save the Earth from the consequences of an instrumental or technological attitude to nature.
A couple of generations ago, Thais were rural folk who ate at home and took pride in offering food to the monks, but as they have moved to the cities they are likely to grab a polythene bag of curry on the way home to reheat.
