Sentence examples for they were centuries from inspiring English sources
The Vedas are chanted today exactly as they were centuries ago.
Perotin lacked the intricacies of major-minorness because they were centuries away from being invented.
Sometimes they are much more beautiful because they've been left just as they were centuries ago.
They were centuries old; and the Irish have extraordinarily long memories.
The letter affirmed that in essence the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed were as valid in the 20th century as they were centuries earlier.
But lambic beers are made as they were centuries before Pasteur, when the process of fermentation seemed to be a miracle rather than a controlled reaction.
They are centuries old: in medieval Persia, soldiers are said to have used their swords to cook meat over open fires.
And they're not used to hearing colorful expressions verbalized as if they're century-old axioms.
They may be centuries old, but the erotic artefacts on show at an Athens exhibition still inspire passion.
His device of characters commenting upon the text in which they appear is centuries ahead of its time.
This would create freedom of trade and movement, transcending borders to reinstate what they were for centuries: liquid frontiers.
