Sentence examples for every couple of generations from inspiring English sources
It's easy to forget that until 1945, European history was one long, repetitive stream of spilled blood and internecine fighting every couple of generations.
What about social programmes, collective heft and – as the Nobel prize committee pointed out – the advent of peace in a part of the world that had been blighted by cataclysmic war every couple of generations?
"It's honestly true that every couple of generations somebody comes along who does it not only differently but who does it his or her way in such a way that it's inimitable," Russell said.
Treating it as a target, chipmakers have, every couple of years, produced a generation of smaller transistors and, therefore, cheaper computing power.However, it looks as though Moore's law will not survive 2014.
What now happens once a decade or even more rarely would happen every three years or so within a couple of generations.
This programming DNA, though, generally only lasts for a couple of generations of schedules before being replaced by stronger new seeds.
Over the next couple of generations, proximity will create Schumpeterian "gales of creative destruction" remaking every industry.
