Sentence examples for some centuries from inspiring English sources

Instead, there are familiar tunes, some centuries old, which are played again and again.

The city was captured by the Arabs in 641 or 642 and for some centuries remained a provincial capital.

Official archives, some centuries old, contained information on how tsunamis had flooded coastal villages, allowing engineers to surmise their height.

Actual bronze seals survive from the 5th century bc, and the practice of sealing must be some centuries older.

Just the sort of combination that attracted Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to their Florentine love nest some centuries later.

Last week the police fired water cannons and pepper spray at thousands of protesters who tried to block the felling of about 25 trees, some centuries old.

Some century-old straw remains.

"We're talking about breaking some century-old habits," he said.

He scored prolifically including some 80 centuries.

The tradition of Arabic literature stretches back some 16 centuries to unrecorded beginnings in the Arabian Peninsula.

It then remained waterlogged for some 30 centuries – before being discovered by the archaeologists.