Sentence examples for roughly four centuries from inspiring English sources

Roughly four centuries on, he has proved that although this place can "exact a terrible price for its beauty," sometimes a lucky visitor can depart from it both enriched and unscathed.

Roughly four centuries after the invention of the scientific method, the leaders of the scientific community are recalibrating their requirements, pushing for the sharing of data and greater experimental transparency.

The show spans roughly three centuries, beginning in the 18th.

In existence for roughly two centuries, Remington is rightly known as "America's oldest gunmaker".

The Bach Werke Verzeichnis catalog, compiled roughly two centuries after Bach's passing, organizes works by type, rather than by chronology.

In the roughly two centuries since this massive neo-Classical church was converted into a secular mausoleum, fewer than 80 people have been admitted into its gravestone club.

Mr. Gopnik's new book is largely about that myth and how it has influenced our conceptions of fine dining for roughly two centuries.

Under the blessing of our scarce resources (somehow following Cusa's "learned ignorance" or reverting Borges's improbable figure of Funes the Memorious) we will compress the roughly two centuries that turned Romanticism into post-painterly Abstraction.

For roughly two centuries, Israel had existed as a loose confederation of tribes, dependent for their unity upon bonds of religious faith and covenant that were renewed periodically in cultic ceremonies at the central shrine at Shiloh.

Deborah Cameron, writing about feminist dictionaries, has cited the example of the word "lesbian," which wasn't included in the Oxford English Dictionary until 1976, roughly two centuries after it entered common usage.

With images recorded by drones, she's able to examine the development of civilizations – first the Etruscans, and later the Romans – over a period of roughly seven centuries.