Sentence examples for two centuries behind from inspiring English sources

He reportedly complained that the church was two centuries behind the times.

Our country is at least one or two centuries behind the Western world.

We Liberals are two centuries behind the US, one century behind Canada, a couple of decades behind Britain and now behind Labor and the New Zealand Labour party in democratising our party's most important decision.

"Newton left openings for the relativists who followed three centuries behind," Gleick notes: Despite the fact that the "Principia" was based on a conception of space and time as absolute and inflexible, Newton considered that "it may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured...

Most religious organisations keep time with an internal clock about four centuries behind GMT.

In its principles of action, America is two or three centuries behind "old Europe".

We've already put more than a thousand centuries behind us, but we've got a long way to go.

There is a strong alternative tradition with at least four centuries behind it – first of pamphlets and books, later of magazines and newspapers.

He had faced a maximum of four centuries behind bars without parole.

"We are four centuries behind Europe on thoughts about politics and religion.

It makes no sense to imagine that religions "mature" in isolation and at standard rates, like human bodies, leaving Islam to always be six centuries behind Christianity at any given point in history.   .