Sentence examples for many generations even from inspiring English sources

But Mockbeggar had been fruit land for many generations even before my great-grandfather took it on, and it's very good ground; slightly south facing, just on the Hoo Peninsula between the Medway and the Thames.

Indeed, traits that enhance net reproduction may increase in frequency over many generations even if they compromise individual longevity.

We conclude that germline silencing can persist for many generations even in the absence of a piRNA trigger.

The life of such a blessed person is thought to be miraculously prolonged by God through many generations and even centuries.

There are almost no examples of literary talent extending through so many generations, as even the Longfords and the Amises would have to concede.

Historical population bottlenecks, in particular, can affect patterns of individual survival, reproduction and mating behaviour for many subsequent generations, even if the population recovers (Keller et al. 1994; Bijlsma et al. 2000).

And more: "We all differ visibly in the color of our skin" — which is the kind of straightforward acknowledgment that no leading figure in the United States would have uttered in those benighted days, or for many generations to come, even if, in the United States, epidermal monochromaticity has never been the norm.

"Comet ISON…could be the brightest comet seen in many generations - brighter even than the full moon," wrote British astronomer David Whitehouse in The Independent.

He wrote of natural modifications occurring during reproduction and accumulating over the course of many generations, producing races and even new species, a description that anticipated in general terms the concept of natural selection.

But Dorey and Yolanda Nez's journey was particularly profound, serving not just as a lesson in genetics but also as a case study in how the broad events of history can have very personal consequences, even many generations later.

That's a big enough sum to last for many generations if well managed — even with a prolific family.