Sentence examples for four or five centuries from inspiring English sources

They travel through four or five centuries of European culture, touching down lightly here and there.

Its 65 garments and accessories travel through four or five centuries of European dress, touching down lightly here and there.

The next four or five centuries saw repeated sackings of the town and much bloodshed at the hands of the English.

Over the past four or five centuries, a series of social and technological changes have reshaped the city at night, progressively colonising it.

The teacher of Renaissance poetry faces a double set of challenges; the first is a tendency among students generally to be daunted by poetry, and the second (which compounds the first) is the unfamiliarity of students with language four or five centuries old.

For at least four or five centuries, The Guide for the Perplexed exercised a very strong influence in the European centres of Jewish thought; in the 13th century, when the Guide was twice translated into Hebrew, these centres were Spain, the south of France, and Italy.

He was three or four centuries old, at most.

"I'm uncomfortable with an exact number, but we're talking centuries — four, five or six centuries".

It's a city of bold, sudden architectural contrasts, in which two or three blocks collapse two or three centuries.

And, in two or three centuries, you wouldn't have enough sites to do it.

In its principles of action, America is two or three centuries behind "old Europe".