Sentence examples for three centuries before from inspiring English sources
The pioneer foodie of French literature, three centuries before Balzac, was François Rabelais.
For nearly three centuries before the birth of Christ, Alexandria was the center of the Western world.
Hittite influence must therefore have reached the Arabian Peninsula at least three centuries before the Tayma' monumental head was carved.
Papermaking finally reached Spain and Sicily in the 12th century, and it took another three centuries before it was practiced in Germany.
Mary Magdalene squats on the kind of low, rush-bottomed wooden chair that had to wait another three centuries before Van Gogh made it a household icon.
A few days later, it was the ancient temple complex of Hatra, in northern Iraq, which was built by the Seleucid Empire around two or three centuries before Christ.
Had not his ancestor, Mehmed the Conqueror, toppled the Byzantines and seized Constantinople two centuries before?
Four centuries before, seven wars between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots, fought with fanatical cruelty on both sides, had racked France.
"At one time was Muslim mosque, built five centuries before, Mughal era, on site of Hanuman temple.
The volcano causing the clouds, named Eyjafjallajokull, had been dormant for nearly two centuries before gently erupting March 20 , 2010
No 20th-century artist, Hughes claims, "could successfully make eloquent and morally urgent art out of human disaster," so how could Goya achieve it two centuries before?
