Sentence examples for some two centuries from inspiring English sources

About the mid-16th century, Unitas emigrants moved into Poland and survived there for some two centuries.

This new chronology also offered the same repudiation of apocalyptic fervour that am I had some two centuries earlier.

Then just as construction began at Cheops, some two centuries before Stonehenge was raised, this extraordinary culture disappeared completely.

In fact, the campaign to prohibit alcohol had been deeply rooted in Anglo-American society for some two centuries.

New Testament religion doesn't get much of a look in so far as the modern CofE is concerned – which suits the episcopalian just fine, since bishops only arrived on the scene some two centuries after Christ's birth.

The discovery of this cemetery some two centuries after it was last used provided just such a foundation, disclosing not just a few beads, pins and buttons, but offering the first large-scale traces of black American experience in this region.

And most of these ancient cities and monuments were abandoned some six centuries before the Spaniards plundered the region.

(St. Augustine's Contra academicos, composed some five centuries later, was intended as an answer to Cicero's views).

Rebanks's family has farmed sheep in the hills of the Lake District, in northwestern England, for some six centuries.

After some six centuries the great Roman families returned to the Palatine, planting 16th-century pleasure gardens and pavilions over past glories.

Their language was for some three centuries the lingua franca of the region, but in the 20th century it was supplanted by Russian.