Sentence examples for great epoch from inspiring English sources

What used to be terrifying has somehow become poignant, as if a great epoch had ended.

That year is said to mark the end of the Mayan calendar's Long Count, when a great epoch will come to a close.

Centuries ago, Chinese settled along the northern coast of Java, now the main island of Indonesia, as part of China's great epoch of Asian trade.

"For the close of a great epoch," Hilbert declared, "not only invites us to look back into the past but also directs our thoughts to the unknown future".

What is not debatable is that Australia's prominence in the EPL roughly aligns with what was the national team's great epoch, capped by those thrilling few weeks in Germany seven years ago.

The great epoch of literary scholarship in ancient times centred on the library (and university) of Alexandria from its foundation in 324 bc to its destruction by the Arabs in ad 640.

There's been no modern austerity equivalent of the great, epoch-defining Alan Bleasdale drama, Boys from the Blackstuff, a series that seemed to signal the high-water mark of Thatcherism.

The stages that the human race has already gone through, or, in other words, the great epochs of history, are regarded as nine in number.

All great epochs of the history of Christianity are defined by new forms of the experience of God and of Christ.

(Homer, the Muses, and Moses wander in with the refugees of the first act, but as humanity is still stuck at "n," they seem more like natural resources than human achievements). Yet it's impossible to understand the great epochs of horror and survival independently of the knowledge gained (or not), or the cultures that endured and perpetrated them.

"It is a great, epoch-defining literary novel," says Burnham, who has no reluctance hyping a book that is unlikely to be available in English before 2008.