Over the course of three centuries a new iconography of wonder had been created.
Old River, 1973, was merely the most emblematic place and moment where, in the course of three centuries, failure had occurred.
"For the course of two centuries, the Dutch royal house has been linked with parliamentary democracy," Willem-Alexander said.
Over the centuries, these limits, like the "growth rings" of a tree, expanded as Paris pressed against them: "From the wall of Philippe Auguste to the modern Périphérique, six different walls followed one another in the course of eight centuries".
This burden was complicated by the ethnic, linguistic, and legal divisions between the populations brought under Frankish domination in the course of three centuries of conquest, beginning with the reign of the first Merovingian king, Clovis (481 511).
Over the course of four centuries, they note, the city's land area has actually grown because adjacent waterways were reclaimed for development in Lower Manhattan and in Queens to extend the runways at Kennedy International and La Guardia Airports.
She appeared, in 1992, in "Orlando," Sally Potter's filmed essay on the nature of the British Empire, which was based on Virginia Woolf's story of a boy who becomes a man who becomes a woman over the course of four centuries of English history.
Central Europe's matchless strength lay in its music, which, from Haydn to Schoenberg, from Liszt to Bartók, over the course of two centuries embraced in itself all the essential trends in European music; Central Europe staggered beneath the glory of its music.
Scenic Hudson's senior planner, Ray Curran, has built a 4-by-5-foot model of the site in balsa wood that can be taken apart to show its evolution over the course of three centuries and the group's proposed redevelopment.
