Sentence examples for during previous centuries from inspiring English sources
The phrase "during previous centuries" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing events, trends, or changes that occurred in the past, specifically in the context of centuries before the current one. Example: "The art styles that emerged during previous centuries have greatly influenced modern artists."
We speculate that the appropriate choice of trees in riparian zones across ecological gradients of salmon carcass densities and bear activity and the isotopic correction for yearly changes in tree size may allow improved assessment of tree ring growth as a historical proxy for salmon abundance and distribution during previous centuries in watersheds where ancient trees still persist.
Great fires must have occurred many times there during the previous centuries, and the inhabitants seemed to take it all as a matter of course, and hardly ever alluded to it.
The Khmer Rouge later justified their incursions into Vietnam as an attempt to regain the territories which Cambodia lost during the previous centuries.
This incursion, more than 500 km from the nearest imperial territory, was a far cry from the defensive-minded strategy Byzantium had followed during the previous centuries and highlighted the new capabilities of the imperial army.
Tens of millions of people watched the NBC broadcast that Sunday afternoon, more than had seen "Richard III" during all the previous centuries combined.
"The friendship between the United States and France is as important today as it has been during the two previous centuries," he said in his speech.
This fashion had originated during the previous century in Spain, and by 1500 it had become high fashion there.
Gutenberg's invention of moveable-type printing, just over a century after the Black Death arrived in England, was the culmination of many experiments undertaken during the previous century to lower labour costs.
These developments permitted the enhancement and refinement of many of the energy-conversion devices and systems that had been introduced during the previous century, as exemplified by the remarkable evolution of jet engines and rockets.
With federal initiative, new barge lines were organized, and by 1931 the annual barge traffic moving along the river was twice the volume moved in any single year during the previous century.
Some of it is experimental, some even verges on the incomprehensible, but much of it is more conventional in subject and technique, and more clearly grounded in the principles of land- and seascape painting that had been established during the previous century.
