Sentence examples for even five generations from inspiring English sources

In the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, the Chu were still the barbarians from the South, and even five generations after the establishment of the Chu Kingdom, its ruler Sun Xiongqu said, "I am also a barbarian, and I am not quite with China".

Today, three, four, even five generations of the same family have come to rely on public housing.

Japanese-American families that lived in the U.S. for three, four, and even five generations were stripped of their homes and belongings and forced into camps.

Even two generations of complete worklessness in the same family was rare.

Dynasties of this sort are the norm on South Street, where businesses tend to stay in families for three and even four generations.

What are the ethics of lives going into the high hundreds, of six or even seven generations of the same family being alive at the same time?

A victim's family is often plunged into poverty for two or even three generations, says Avi Silverman of the FIA Foundation, a London-based road-safety charity.

We are 10 hours by car from our suburban New Jersey home, but in a way we are one or even two generations removed from that time and place.

The big mistake of politicians was not to have seized on that, to have allowed a whole generation of people, even two generations, to develop who are born here but continue to feel foreign".

In many areas, that now looks and feels not so much like the Optima's immediate predecessor but a car two, or perhaps even three, generations older, and nowhere is the difference more obvious than in the Optima's interior.

D. Sundaram, a retired professor of sociology from Madras University and a longtime member of Tamil Nadu's now-disbanded Backward Classes Commission, defended the state's quotas by saying that even three generations of wealth and power cannot reverse centuries of backwardness.