Sentence examples for preceding century from inspiring English sources

The council admitted that much of what popes had thought and done in the preceding century had been mistaken.

Throughout the preceding century, as the tenets of Christianity grew harder to maintain, contemporary Germans had begun to practice their own new religion of Greek art and myth.

That warming, it reported, was equal to 2.25 degrees to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit per century -- "substantially greater" than the surface warming over the preceding century as a whole.

Twentieth-century composers went on to create a staggering corpus of sacred music, arguably eclipsing the production of the preceding century.

He and his partisans published hundreds of articles and books allegedly proving their contentions, which effectively deny the achievements of biology for at least the preceding century.

This style was characterized by the application of increasingly elaborate geometrical decoration to the structural forms that had been established during the preceding century.

Worse things happened in preceding centuries, but we didn't know about them.

And now everything that the Europeans had built up in the preceding centuries turned against them.

We also thought we'd benefit economically from our popularity, much like the US did in preceding centuries.

It is difficult today to appreciate just how important the Hudson was to southern New Yorkers in preceding centuries.

Incorrect transcription in the preceding centuries (some 14 instances are beyond repair), however, has invited frequent and often uncertain emendation.