Sentence examples for took three generations from inspiring English sources

It used to be said that it took three generations for family fortunes to be made and lost.

"It took three generations to do this to the environment," said Mr. Schwarze-Rodrian of the Ruhr Business Development Agency.

The Zhou royal house, however, had already conceived the idea of replacing Shang as the master of China a conquest that took three generations.

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.

In the Roman Empire, China, and elsewhere, this period took three generations and might mean that the grandchild of a slave owner (the "patron") was legally responsible for the grandchild of a slave (his "client").

Professor True said it often took two generations before reality caught up with changes in attitudes.

It took two generations of smokers to produce an explosion of respiratory cancer and emphysema, and we failed to take early decisive action.

Crossing these white-footed, genetically normal mice with other normal mice, they found it took six generations for the trait to disappear.

Yet it took two generations for, say, the Rockefellers to amass their money and transform it into something of cultural value.

Discouragingly, it took two generations until a trade publication was able to declare in the 1880s that "every woman now knows how to use one".At about the same time, the increase in technological complexity gathered pace.

Bloomberg Businessweek: The rise and fall of the House of Busch — it took four generations to build Anheuser-Busch, and only one for it to come apart — Glenn Collins Sunset: Changes and modifications politely declined?