Sentence examples for spanning three centuries from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Wiener led a full, active and charitable life spanning three centuries.

He has selected five works by composers spanning three centuries: Buxtehude, Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn.

In its 12th season, the artistic director, David Atherton, leads the festival orchestra in works spanning three centuries.

Spanning three centuries of history, the galleries maintain a permanent collection of more than 4,000 objects, from Africa, Oceania, and Asia.

Ninety works spanning three centuries of scientific inquiry are to go under the hammer at Christie's in December, in an attempt to plug a £2m hole in the finances of the UK's most venerable science charity, the Royal Institution.

Begun with a donation of nearly a thousand quilts — then valued at more than $6 million — from the couple's personal collection, it is today home to more than 3,500 quilts spanning three centuries and two dozen countries.

Her exhibition has chairs spanning four centuries.

The Library of Congress holds thousands of Bibles spanning eight centuries.

Thursday night's program offered works by French composers spanning six centuries.

Together they anchor a pinwheel of scholastic architectural history spanning two centuries.

Spanning five centuries, they now fill the Esther B. Aresty Collection on the Culinary Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.