Sentence examples for two centuries to go from inspiring English sources

It took almost two centuries to go from Edward Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccine in 1796 to the last case of smallpox in 1977.

Only two centuries to go with 18 half-centuries point to problems building a long innings, something Watson is working to correct.

It's taken us more than two centuries to go from a country in which black Americans were property, and a black man could be murdered for whistling at a white woman, to a country in which a Justice of the Peace is shamed into resigning for refusing to marry an interracial couple.

The tourists declared on 674 for six after Marcus North and Brad Haddin completed centuries to go with the hundreds already made by Simon Katich and Ricky Ponting, before England lost the Essex pair of Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara cheaply in their second innings.

Bristol's Trump took the next with a century to go one away from victory, before the Scot pulled three frames back to keep the match alive.

Winston belongs to the school of "automatons," which goes back more than two centuries, to a mechanical duck built by the French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson in the 1730s.

The stats were undeniable: the Australians had made seven centuries to England's one going into this game, an anomaly that took on an even more damning aspect when Ian Bell's 72 proved England's top score in their first-innings 332.

In Saudi Arabia, most of the traditions, in fact, are only two centuries old; the Catholic Church, by contrast, claims to rest on traditions that go back twenty centuries to Jesus Christ himself.

He goes back three centuries to argue that "self-interest" is the driving force behind much of society's progress.

Reports of the Wint-O-Green Life Saver Effectermthe technisal triboluminescencenescence, which means light produced by rubbing — goes back at least four centuries to Sir Francis Bacon, the English philosopher often considered the father of the scientific method.

So in two centuries, we go from biological beings launching their first detectable signals into space to synthetic intelligence.