Sentence examples for result of centuries from inspiring English sources

"If people live in certain ways, it is a result of centuries of development," he said.

This serene, seemingly natural landscape is actually the result of centuries of human intervention.

On Curaçao and Bonaire there is much bare, eroded soil, the result of centuries of overgrazing.

Englishness is taken for granted as the result of centuries of uninterrupted tradition.

These developments were actually, however, the result of centuries of religious accretion.

The coast lies far to the south; the result of centuries of silt deposited by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

But in 1955 it is said that one country house was demolished every 5 days [2], and people didn't really care: as country houses were destroyed, so were their contents sold off or disposed of, often the results of centuries of collecting the very best that was available.

The current occurrence of champion trees in the agricultural landscape is the result of many centuries of rural areas management.

How it would have looked when he painted it is another unknown: her currently crepuscular aspect is the result of several centuries of protective varnish, tinged yellowish by oxidisation.

As a result of two centuries of foreign intervention, which has caused more damage than the earthquake, including the overthrow of two democratically elected governments in the past two decades, Haiti has been reduced to dependency on foreign aid.

The tax is the result of a centuries old contract called a dhimma.