Sentence examples for time for centuries from inspiring English sources

Such a realignment happened at the onset of the Falklands war; similar ones have shaped the island's whole history.Discovered in 1501 by the Portuguese, Ascension Island was on the way to nowhere and deemed uninhabitable, so it was left uninhabited, most of the time, for centuries to come, though goats were introduced to give anyone with the misfortune of being ship wrecked something to eat.

When they were finished, they had succeeded in bringing Ballinderry Park back to life... in such a way that it looks like it was frozen in time for centuries.

Although richly endowed with natural resources, Yunnan remained an underdeveloped region until relatively recent times; for centuries the ethnic, religious, and political separatism of the province posed obstacles to the efforts of a central government to control it.

Authors have dreamed of time travel for centuries.

Much of the rest of Magna Carta, weathered by time and for centuries forgotten, has long since crumbled, an abandoned castle, a romantic ruin.

The fearful fantasies created by Europeans at this time endured for centuries and reveal a buried anxiety about Christian identity and behaviour.

So new year is coming, the time when for centuries video games journalists have traditionally knelt before their console or PC of choice and begged the Pixellated Games Fairy for just one wish.

Admired in his own time and for centuries after, Edward was denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by later Whig historians such as William Stubbs.

It constituted the majority of Australia's total of 371, which set up 274-run victory and a 4 0 series lead, and was his seventh Ashes century, ranking him second only to Bradman at the time for Ashes centuries.

Time for other centuries to step it up.

Constantinople's location also ensured its existence would stand the test of time; for many centuries, its walls and seafront protected Europe against invaders from the east and the advance of Islam.