Sentence examples for two generations before from inspiring English sources

Or, as Whitman phrased it more simply two generations before, "The shapes arise!" Together, bridge and skyline were the eidos, the formal expression of ideas the poets put into words.

This may be even amplified further by the well know fact that, when the standards of living first increase in poor populations, this causes the fertility rates first to increase even more for one or two generations, before decreasing dramatically.

Not only had I confessed and made some amends to the flesh and blood of the man I had wronged two generations before, I had been forgiven by someone with a generous heart before I had repaid a penny.

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

For two generations before Ripley, Americans had been coming to Europe to explore issues of identity and sexuality.

Yet as the museum grew larger it drifted from its radical beginnings, just as the Museum of Modern Art had done two generations before.

First, we demonstrated that resistance to streptomycin is heritable by culturing bacteria from rescued populations in fresh antibiotic-free conditions for 24 h (c. seven generations) before retesting their resistance against streptomycin.

In the study reported by Clapcote et al. [ 24], mutant mice were then backcrossed to the C57BL/6 J background for at least six generations before intercrossing L100P/+ mice to generate homozygous mutants for behavioral tests.

My family come from a village in the Peloponnese which, when I was little, was very basic, and there were many parallels to Ambridge life – people living on and off the land, livelihoods being dependent on weather, bureaucracy and that fantastic thing of multi-generational living, constantly referencing the three or four generations before that".

And yet he is a different kind of farmer from the four generations before him.

The narrator's grandfather, Georges Batrakani, comes from a clan settled in Egypt for three generations before him.