Sentence examples for three centuries back from inspiring English sources
The third oldest English-language university in the world, it was founded 600 years ago; three centuries back, Benjamin Franklin studied here, as did the first president of Princeton University, John Witherspoon.
Two centuries back, Goya painted bucolic picnickers in shaded pastures above the Manzanares.
Shall we start with education, as the Regents were doing two centuries back?
There is also for Péqueux a growing respect for his fellow bridge builders, four centuries back.
While the decision to send the convention four centuries back in time raised eyebrows among some political observers, R.N.C. spokesperson Harland Dorrinson downplayed the unusual nature of the move.
But they know that sects and other religious groups often played a part in the upheavals that racked imperial China from the revolts against the Han dynasty two millennia ago to the White Lotus rebellion a mere two centuries back and the Taiping and Boxer rebellions more recently.
The forebears of these men and women have been raising and cutting cane here for four centuries, back to slave days, and for nearly all of that time, the sentiment of that office motto would have looked absurd: for the small sugar producers of Jamaica, downpours of one kind or another have never stopped, and there has been precious little time for ark-building.
She's incredibly smart, but not trained in combat, and she's understandably overwhelmed by the challenges of being transported nine centuries back in time.
The principle of privity that nobody can sue on a contract to which they were not a party—has a pedigree of over three centuries, reaching back to the 1677 Statute of Frauds.
Since everyone loves a Tibetan Buddhist, let's invite someone who can trace his reincarnations two centuries further back than the Dalai Lama – who usually gets all the limelight anyway – and invite the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa.
Volume two, The Book of Saladin, steps back three centuries and into the Middle East.
