Sentence examples for two centuries time from inspiring English sources

What seems to us the doggerel of any modern cemetery may seem well said, or at least quaint, to those who read it (acid rain permitting, which is unlikely) in two centuries' time.

As the editors point out in their introductory essay, there is in fact a rationale for concluding that a $10.1 billion opportunity today to safeguard global GDP in 2200 is not worth taking namely, that if the money were invested at 7% instead of being spent on the project, that sum would grow by more than enough to replace the missing GDP in two centuries' time.

And I know that on Monty Pythonesque grounds there's a good likelihood that in five centuries time I will be one, as a result of this".

Savile Row has maintained its excellent reputation for over two centuries, surviving hard times and boom times and even occasionally moving with the times.

For almost two centuries, from the time of George Washington's presidency to the election of Ronald Reagan, whites of European descent made up at least 80% of the population.

Under the patronage of the monarchy and the Buddhist monkhood, literature continued to flourish for two centuries, during which time such major classical works as Sang Sinsai and Thao Hung Thao Cheuang were probably composed.

In response, a major critic of the minimalists, the American archaeologist William Dever, wrote that ample physical evidence pointed to early Israelites living in the region's highlands 3,200 years ago, two centuries before the time of David and Solomon.

The calendar says it is, but in the aftermath of a presidential election that looks like it will be decided by the Electoral College, we're thrown back two centuries, to a time when the country had only 13 states.

He scored over 400 runs in each season between 1932 and 1935 and scored two centuries in that time, both in 1933.

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

Gilligan scored two centuries and nine times took five or more wickets in an innings.