Sentence examples for three generations before from inspiring English sources

FEW family firms survive more than three generations before being torn apart, usually by rifts over succession.

The narrator's grandfather, Georges Batrakani, comes from a clan settled in Egypt for three generations before him.

That's pleasing, isn't it?" Watts never set out to be a farmer, despite the three generations before him.

Writers like Norman Angell held similar beliefs before the start of World War I — and it took three generations before the global economy became as interconnected again.

"These ones, the royal monarchs, we also call '4Gs.' They're the fourth generation — the three generations before this, they live just four to six weeks, like most butterflies.

My family in the UK had a phone three generations before Emily's, but her parents went online four years earlier than mine.

Or, as Whitman phrased it more simply two generations before, "The shapes arise!" Together, bridge and skyline were the eidos, the formal expression of ideas the poets put into words.

This may be even amplified further by the well know fact that, when the standards of living first increase in poor populations, this causes the fertility rates first to increase even more for one or two generations, before decreasing dramatically.

First, we demonstrated that resistance to streptomycin is heritable by culturing bacteria from rescued populations in fresh antibiotic-free conditions for 24 h (c. seven generations) before retesting their resistance against streptomycin.

In the study reported by Clapcote et al. [ 24], mutant mice were then backcrossed to the C57BL/6 J background for at least six generations before intercrossing L100P/+ mice to generate homozygous mutants for behavioral tests.

Not only had I confessed and made some amends to the flesh and blood of the man I had wronged two generations before, I had been forgiven by someone with a generous heart before I had repaid a penny.