Sentence examples for for four thousand years from inspiring English sources

But, then, we lack comparative data for what codes of behavior preserve a state for four thousand years.

In this stimulating history, Appleby insists that, far from being inevitable, the advent of capitalism was "a startling departure from the norms that had prevailed for four thousand years," and required a radical reconception of human nature.

A people that has survived, its identity intact, for four thousand years, that reaffirmed its life after the Holocaust, that rebuilt its ancestral home after two thousand years of exile and oppression, has more to say to the world than that it has enemies.

For two years.

None for forty years.

Fridays for two years.

I thought for five years.

First Minister for six years.

"Stuck there for forty years".

They stayed for six years.

Thursday spot for three years.