Sentence examples for long ancient from inspiring English sources

The lifespan of styles may be long (ancient Egyptian, over 3,000 years) or short (Baroque, less than 200 years) according to the changeability of cultural patterns.

The voice – high, fluting yet saturated with a sense of command, honed by shouting "fag, toast my crumpets!" down long, ancient corridors – inquired whether Vince Cable agreed that countries with flexible labour laws had the best growth and those with the least flexible had the highest unemployment.

These dung piles were deposited there by the Dinodontosaurus, an eight-foot-long ancient animal similar to the rhino, common in the Triassic period.

The analyses were run (a) on concatenated fragments using all ancient and extant sequences; (b) on concatenated fragments of all extant sequences and of the longest ancient sequences (obtained from cone scales and seeds S8, S9 and S10); (c) on single fragments on all sequences.

How long the ancient battle went on is uncertain.

It was important to her to bring the long and ancient spiritual connection to country into her writing, particularly in her last two novels.

A huge ceremonial structure, it borrowed features from the Acropolis, in tribute to the long fascination ancient Greece exerted upon the German imagination (a fascination that in no way extends to the current German-Greek relationship).

Hiller's work has faith in now – in new cultural stuff, new techniques and new media – and in the power of tracing connections between the cultural galaxies of the present and long, indeed ancient, traditions and customs of art.

Safe to say, such a naive political mind wouldn't have lasted long in Ancient Rome.

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

Yoga has a long and ancient connection to Hindu spirituality, but modern practice is often divorced from these religious roots, as many experts have pointed out.