Sentence examples for fairly ancient from inspiring English sources

Some color schemes have fairly ancient and possibly capricious traditions.

The first was a fairly ancient English comic standby: the eccentric, and the concept of eccentricity.

It is a fairly ancient practice, but finding such a simple energy saver proved problematic.

I mean, I know Arlene's fairly ancient, but it's not like I'm a spring chicken myself.

An ancient-music musician can find a fairly ancient room — and, in this case, "ancient" is defined as "a lot older than the United States of America" — in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan.

Analogies between painting and music had long been common; many thinkers had attempted to codify the supposed expressiveness of colours, lines, and shapes; and more than one fairly ancient sketch might compete for the honour of being called the first abstract picture.

It may actually have been two Bronze Ages: a garden-variety Bronze Age followed fairly rapidly, as ancient time goes, by what could be called a golden age of bronze.

Life has pattern and reason and the paths through it are dictated fairly and honestly, by ancient rhythms.

Other societies in the Philippines, Nepal, Malaya, Indonesia, and Japan are known to have had slavery from ancient until fairly recent times.

Many scientists who study this fairly recent period of ancient Egypt don't pay much attention to the geology, focusing instead on history and art history, Dibble notes.

The ciliate mitochondrial gene order is fairly static, considering the ancient evolutionary divergences of these species (as much as 2 billion years since the divergence of oligohymenophorans from spirotrichs [ Wright and Lynn 1997]).