Thus, the feudal society was completely reshaped in the two centuries preceding the Qin unification.
To prevent what was deemed extortion, the English Parliament fixed the prices of commodities and of services from time to time during the four centuries preceding the Declaration of Independence.
The fact remains, however, that the ideas that were to prove decisive in the 19th century, so far as the social sciences were concerned, arose during the two centuries preceding.
For the two centuries preceding the American Civil War (1861 65), one historian found documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving 10 or more slaves whose aim was personal freedom.
Recognised by most English-speakers chiefly for its associations with the interwar experiment in democ racy - the 'Weimar Republic' - the city was for the two centuries preceding the Nazi regime a cultural centre not only for German-speakers, but for Europe.
Nevertheless, despite the documented occurrence of frequent large disturbances during the two centuries that preceded the 1868 1870 events, old growth accounted for 26% of the area, making it clear that both large scale disturbance and old-growth forest are within the HRV of mountain spruce forest dynamics in Central Europe.
After Napoleon, the 19th century saw fewer, shorter and smaller wars than the preceding three centuries, not to mention the one that followed.
Since about 1920 more genuine change has occurred in American rural life than during the preceding three centuries of European settlement in North America.
For much of the preceding three centuries, America nurtured its sense of exceptionalism by turning away from European monarchy, conflict and class.
A study by the National Security Archive shows that federal court opinions cited the doctrine three times as often in the decade after 9/11 as in the quarter-century preceding it.
