Sentence examples for four centuries before from inspiring English sources

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

It stayed in his tomb for four centuries before it was found there in 1104.

Four centuries before wizardry and spells became a global franchise thanks to one H Potter, witch-finding was all the rage.

But, with Africa, Coogler begins with a subject about which the world had suspended its disbelief four centuries before he was born.

In its prime, about four centuries before Columbus stumbled on to the western hemisphere, Cahokia was a prosperous pre-American city with a population similar to London's.

Macao, a Portuguese colony for more than four centuries before its return to China in December 1999, is such a place.

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

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

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.