Sentence examples for preceding ages from inspiring English sources

There have been four preceding "ages".

(It's haunting to think of the wooden marvels from preceding ages that have decayed to dust).

But in the 20th century surgery progressed farther, faster, and more dramatically than in all preceding ages.

But in the 20th century, surgery progressed farther, faster, and more dramatically than in all preceding ages.

Standard histories saw the nineteenth-century medical treatment of madness (developed from the reforms of Pinel in France and the Tuke brothers in England) as an enlightened liberation of the mad from the ignorance and brutality of preceding ages.

Conditional growth was derived from the residuals resulting from regression of the z-score for the measurement at a specific time point on the z-scores for measurements at all preceding ages.

They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human".

In an age of slick literary successes it is perhaps impor tant to study the failures of a preceding age which possess the sensibility of genius.

The Warring States period is distinguished from the preceding age, the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) period (770 476 bc), when the country was divided into many even smaller states.

They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

In these paintings Christ is represented with his head leaning on one side with an expression of pain and his body bending forward in agony a conception differing from "the triumphant Christ" of the preceding age.