Gwent was the early medieval kingdom that enjoyed some seven centuries of autonomy before the arrival of invading 11th century Normans.
One might have expected a better turn out for Sir Roger's 75th birthday bash – especially since the highly eclectic programme – spanning some three centuries of music – contained a little bit of something for everyone.
They eventually came to form the backbone of some seven centuries of philosophy, in the form of the commentary tradition, much of it original philosophy carried on in a broadly Aristotelian framework.
By the time of the Greek Revolution of 1821, Greece had gone through some four centuries of brutal Turkish military occupation.
Authoritarianism has corrupted public life, enriched business elites, entrenched the suppression of free speech, spawned a ruthless, unaccountable security-service apparatus and led to unspeakable abuses of human rights.The weight, some shrug, of centuries of strongman rule who cares?
By the sixteenth century, it was declared a royal site and for some centuries was emblematic as one of Madrid's food sources (CM [1999], [2002], [2009]).
Some breeds developed through centuries of crossing other breeds, while others descended from a single foundation sire, or other limited or restricted foundation bloodstock.
This experienced Brucknerian – after some half century of devotion to the composer – holds all in control, and brings a welcome lightness and gleam to the second movement Scherzo.
Some of us, however, have endured decades -- and some cultures centuries -- of disparaging slurs directed to our ethnic, racial, and even religious heritage.
