Sentence examples for further centuries from inspiring English sources

By the 1600s, however, this seedbed of free speech had produced the world's leading printing industry, which thrived around the church for further centuries often at odds with anti-democratic monarchs.

Its bowlers blew South Africa away for less than 300 on the opening day, then its batsmen built a huge score — with Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag following their innings of more than 100 in Nagpur with further centuries.

Further centuries would follow in the next two Tests – the only man to achieve three tons in his first three Tests – and it was little wonder that John Woodcock said he had "played like an angel" and "has a style which charms away routine and the balance and footwork of the greatest natural players".

He has hit five further centuries since then - two of them doubles - and played all five Tests in Australia last winter when England retained the Ashes with a 3-1 victory.

As well as his double hundred against Essex at the Ageas Bowl, Vince has also hit two further centuries and five fifties this season to help his side win four of their first nine game - as many as they won in the whole of last season.

In between, Morris struck two further centuries in the tour matches, against Border and Transvaal.

Some think that it will take a further century to change things.

In Britain, it took a further century before hanging ceased altogether.

Galen's notions of physiology, by contrast, lasted for a further century, until the English physician William Harvey correctly explained the circulation of the blood.

Cook, with a brilliant double-century in the second innings at Brisbane, and a further century at Adelaide, could with an aggregate of 495 runs safely expect to be the leading scorer three Tests into this Ashes series.

Meanwhile, the cynical might look to a further century before Melville, to another literary solution to these and other pressing problems: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which he addresses the problem of burdensome children in poverty-stricken Ireland by suggesting their parents cook and eat them.