Sentence examples for for a few generations from inspiring English sources

Of Germanic origin, Orestes' family had been Roman citizens for a few generations.

"He's going to be around for a few generations," Peterson said.

After all, for a few generations, in the eighties and nineties, MTV was where one turned to access difference.

Though these families could theoretically have carriers, no new cases have shown up for a few generations.

But even in normal reproduction, it seems that some epigenetic marks can persist for a few generations.

Mutations with moderate effects may persist for a few generations, and ones with small effects may last even longer.

In other words, the cave was occupied for only a few generations at that time.

Because northern fulmars can live for 40 years or more, the birds have been exposed to significant plastic debris in the seas for only a few generations.

They said it appeared that the symbols in the inscription were unrelated to later Mesoamerican scripts, suggesting that this Olmec writing might have been practiced for only a few generations and never spread to surrounding cultures.

We have been imitating for only a few generations, but the mutations of the contemporary classical music scene are rather nails in coffins, echoing further with each reiteration of the unanswered question, than the serious and inspired continuation of the great cultural traditions of western civilization.

These animals come from wild-derived colonies, which have been kept in captivity for only a few generations.