Sentence examples for long centuries from inspiring English sources

In the 18th century output per person grew imperceptibly faster than in the long centuries of almost no growth before.

In the long centuries leading up to Industrial Revolution total economic growth averaged no more than 0.2% per year.

Pride in that remote history sustained the Greeks during the long centuries of Turkish occupation after Constantinople fell in 1453.

Reinjected into the intellectual bloodstream of Europe after long centuries, they were, in effect, voices from another world, a world as different as Vespucci's Brazil was from England.

In the long centuries following the destruction of the Judean state by the Romans, it was a central part of messianic and eschatological expectations.

Germany is a country where economic prudence was ingrained in the popular consciousness by long centuries of war and the wrenching hyperinflation of the 1920s.

It has been a very long century since.

Theologians and poets and painters have been ruminating on the fall of man for many a long century.

"On only two occasions in that long century – 1900 and 1931 – have the Tories won a majority of the votes.

But then the long century of criminalisation never had any more to do with evidence, than America's disastrous interwar experiment with prohibiting the undoubtedly-dangerous demon drink.

Mao belonged to a Chinese generation of activists and thinkers who developed a fierce political awareness at the end of a long century of internal decay, humiliations by Western powers and by Japan, and failed imperial reforms.