Sentence examples for there were centuries from inspiring English sources

Before that, there were centuries of hand-lettered and illuminated manuscripts.

"But what young gay people today don't realize is, there were centuries of total confusion about how to express your sexuality".

There are centuries of experience providing support for that notion".

Though mentions of contemporary scandals are conspicuously absent, there are centuries'  worth of papal ruthlessness to behold.

"When you put it all together, there are centuries, if not millennia, of individual human investment in this thing," Steltzner said.

MAETAENG, THAILAND — There are centuries of stories contained in the meter-thick teak columns of Barry Nathanson's luxury fixer-upper in the northern hills of Thailand.

On the first floor, there are century-old police uniforms and a maroon 1950's officer's motorcycle with an Indian head emblem on the front fender.

There are century-old pear and sycamore trees, along with that potent wisteria; blue jays and mourning doves nest among them.

There are century-old electric cars and steam-powered cars of the same era.

There have been centuries when this battle lay dormant, where Sunni and Shia not only co-existed, but intermarried.

Permanent gullies there were reforested a century ago with the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia).