Sentence examples for former century from inspiring English sources
One could well imagine a former century when a young Scotsman dwelled in such an atmosphere of dropping clouds and shimmering mists and gave it the name of Neverland.
The Harperley Hall duplex created by Madonna Ciccone way back in a former century, when she and Sean Penn were a hot item and she was very much a Material Girl on the rise in the matter of shrewd real estate acquisitions, sold for $16 million in the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
These were (or so I thought) arguments from a former century.
This peculiar era - wherein the fervent idealism of the former century was de facto abandoned but still employed as a tool for rallying the masses - is nowhere better represented than in Le Cagnard.
This development may have to do with the fact that in the 80s and 90s of the former century, the European mental healthcare sector was characterised by deinstitutionalization of chronic psychiatric patients.
In the former century, repeated episodes of insulin-induced hypoglycemic coma for periods ranging from 45 minutes to 3 hours for the treatment of opiate addiction and schizophrenia have been found to have minimal long-term effects and a mortality of less than 1% [ 29].
Abstractions were also endowed with a more urgent ideological content than in former centuries.
In the main streets of the city, modern buildings contrast sharply with the decaying architectural relics of former centuries.
We're living with all the former centuries now, not just in Africa but everywhere in the world.
In former centuries, the species occurred widely in northern and eastern Africa, Asia Minor, Arabia, and parts of Europe.
Everyone who has the opportunity seems to be de- veloping into a "Prussian". The large-scale mechanism gradually appears so hope- less that I am beginning to feel that the political disinterestedness and international mentality of intellectuals of former centuries is the only thing possible and worth striving for.
