In contrast to most crop plants or production animals, plantation trees are generally only a few generations removed from the wild state.
Mecca was only a few generations old.
But only a few generations ago many people made their own simple cheeses at home.
In other words, the cave was occupied for only a few generations at that time.
For all the fixity of its ways, the real-estate oligarchy is only a few generations old.
He declared: In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
Most of the ethnic Chinese who make up the country's majority are only a few generations removed from those who arrived here on sampans.
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
Perhaps we don't get our newspapers by fax, but then many people have them delivered to a kindle or a iPhone, devices that would have seemed like magical tablets only a few generations ago.
Among the younger writers were children of immigrants, many of them Jews; African Americans, only a few generations away from slavery; and, eventually, women, who, with the rise of feminism, were to speak in a new voice.
