Sentence examples for sometimes for centuries from inspiring English sources

Historical memory can linger in music, sometimes for centuries.

Once infrastructure decisions are made, they are locked in place, often for decades, sometimes for centuries.

The "foreign" boats had fished there for decades, sometimes for centuries.

Historical change deteriorates and slides back; defeat hangs around, sometimes for centuries, awaiting the chance to become victory.

When Siemens or another big company comes along to digitise our investments, they are the VCs putting in late-stage capital after we've borne all the risks, sometimes for centuries.

I understand the Palestinians in the same way that I understand the pain of millions of who were displaced during the partition of India and Pakistan; of 12 million Germans who were expelled from homes their families inhabited, sometimes for centuries, in Poland, Czechoslovakia and other areas after 1945; or the pain of Native Americans who lost their magnificent prairies to white conquest.

The two populations have lived together, sometimes uneasily, for centuries.

Whether working in art, business, or clinical investigation, great problem finders can look at the same phenomena that others have observed--sometimes for centuries--and perceive gaps of understanding and offer new perspectives that lead to a creative solution.

Eighth-century documents, particularly for Lucca, show a network of medium-level aristocratic families based in cities, who tended to furnish both counts and bishops for their localities and whose genealogies can sometimes be traced for centuries to come.

Futurists have been conceptualising our potential fate for centuries, sometimes successfully.

If you're in New York, Brussels, London or Milan, you're surrounded by a world that has been subdued and overseen by humans for centuries, sometimes for millennia.