Sentence examples for only four generations from inspiring English sources

It has taken only four generations for the Arzaks to expand beyond Spain's Basque Country, where the family opened a tavern in 1897.

"The First World War was the most emotional thing that happened to our nation, and it was only four generations away," he said.

The changes in breeding values were strong if considering that they occurred in only four generations.

After only four generations the population yields and mean weights of fish diverged dramatically.

Artificial selection studies on Ambystoma talpoideum demonstrated that pond drying can significantly increase the frequency of metamorphosis over very brief periods (only four generations) [ 51].

Conover and Munch (2002) found that strong artificial selection on M. menidia body size (only 10% of the largest/smallest adults were allowed to reproduce) resulted in a significant divergence between up- and down-selected lines within only four generations.

Indeed, the plot in Fig. 3 shows that the genetic algorithm finds a better than baseline solution after only five generations, i.e. after generating fewer than 10% of the number of solutions examined by the repeated random draws based method.

Statistically, however, with a minimum of only six generations of backcrossing to SJL/J after generating the 5B6-transgenic mice on the FVB background, a small percentage of FVB alleles must be present in the IIJ strain.

"We're only two generations out.

Mr. Rudin added that his own family is only three generations removed from the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The fortune was only three generations old and the title even more recent.