Sentence examples for took centuries for from inspiring English sources
It once took centuries for a dance style to migrate from one continent to another.
We see too that after the First Folio's debut, it took centuries for homage to turn into worship.
It often took centuries for the church authorities to then give official endorsement to this demotic sanctification.
It took centuries for the Catholic Church to fully understand the deep relationship between the priesthood and celibacy, a relationship founded on the celibacy of Jesus himself.
He was a lonely, tragic man, an experimenter who was so far ahead of his time that it took centuries for the real significance of his work to become apparent.
It took centuries for any further major changes to catch on, however.
It had taken centuries for the city to rise, decline and disappear.
Even if we stop acid rain tomorrow, it may take centuries for our forests and lakes to recover from accumulated acids and mercury.
Amalgamation's most prominent black proponent was the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who married a white woman and conceded that it would take centuries for the races to disappear.
The good news is that it could take centuries for warmer water to penetrate down to the bottom of the oceans and release the stored methane.
"It takes centuries for the huarango to be of substantial size, and only a few hours to fell it with a chainsaw," Mr. Beresford-Jones said.
