Sentence examples for the previous two centuries from inspiring English sources

In the previous two centuries, passing sailors had plundered the tortoises to use as food on their long voyages.

The remaining antique homes cover the previous two centuries and include two museums: the 1774 Thomas Griswold House and the 1803 Medad Stone Tavern.

In one eight-year period, the University of Michigan's Evan Caminker has noted, the Court invalidated 16 Congressional statutes by a 5-to-4 vote, something that had happened just 25 times in the previous two centuries.

You had only to study the previous two centuries of Florentine drawing, from the rocky pillars of Masaccio to the twisting perfection of Michelangelo, to see how knowledge grew through a contest in observation.

Although the formes fixes of the previous two centuries were no longer used, the formal control and standard patterns of the chansons separates them from the Italian madrigals of the same years.

The former, founded by the Corporation of London in 1826, housed many archaeological discoveries of the previous two centuries from Roman and medieval London, the Hanbury Beaufoy collection of tradesmen's tokens, and material relating to the city guilds and livery companies.

Although there were far fewer such incidents in the 11th century than in the 12th and 13th centuries, there were more in the 11th century than in the previous five centuries combined.

It seemed like a question for which the answer could be presumed — certainly by that segment of America that viewed his election as an antidote for the previous three centuries of racial history.

The development of scientific archaeology in 19th-century Europe from the antiquarianism and treasure collecting of the previous three centuries was due to three things: a geological revolution, an antiquarian revolution, and the propagation of the doctrine of evolution.

Sure, there are better watches right now, but the MA was finished in 1827 using tools little removed from what was available in the previous three centuries and by 1900 watchmaking was a dead art and is now, at best, relegated to shoe repair bodegas that also specialize in watch battery replacement.

The 21st century has so far been warmer than the previous three centuries, and 2018's sweltering summer was the joint hottest ever recorded in England.