Sentence examples for five centuries before from inspiring English sources

"At one time was Muslim mosque, built five centuries before, Mughal era, on site of Hanuman temple.

Re "Homecoming of Odysseus May Have Been in Eclipse" (June 24): Constantino Baikouzis and Marcelo O. Magnasco concede that for Homer to know about the eclipse "seems unlikely because it would entail the transmission through oral tradition of information about an eclipse occurring maybe five centuries before".

Mr. Mallery was known for his thesis that Vikings reached American shores five centuries before Columbus.

It is well attested in inscriptions and texts for about five centuries before the Common Era and was used in official documents until approximately 90 89 bce.

The reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries, it might almost be said, very nearly completed the conversion of Germany that had begun five centuries before.

It had reached Persia five centuries before Christ, and though the Greeks and Romans were aware of it, neither particularly cherished it.

Had not his ancestor, Mehmed the Conqueror, toppled the Byzantines and seized Constantinople two centuries before?

Four centuries before, seven wars between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, fought with fanatical cruelty on both sides, had racked France.

The volcano causing the clouds, named Eyjafjallajokull, had been dormant for nearly two centuries before gently erupting March 20 , 2010

No 20th-century artist, Hughes claims, "could successfully make eloquent and morally urgent art out of human disaster," so how could Goya achieve it two centuries before?

In some such way, two centuries before, the ragged poor would go to the French royal palaces to see the king dine or get ready for bed.