But every summer, Mr. Caspar would return to the Kansas farm that has been in his family for five generations so he could help with the wheat harvest.
The study seemed promising: he knew it had been underway for more than 50 years and had followed more than 15,000 people, spanning three generations, so in theory, at least, it could offer a crucial moving picture.
In The Rainbow, the first of the novels of this period, Lawrence extends the scope of Sons and Lovers by following the Brangwen family (who live near Eastwood) over three generations, so that social and spiritual change are woven into the chronicle.
Godzilla has been part of the pop-cultural landscape for more than three generations, so it's hard to imagine a time when the monster wasn't the source of jokes, memes, rock-and-roll riffs, and the ubiquitous prefix "son of" and suffix "-zilla".
The codpiece lasted about two, almost three, generations, so it's a longer thing.
I said South Africa could be a moral lesson and beacon for America, if things went right for South Africa, and he was warmly receptive but, as I was starting to say that I had been at Wits and my family had been in Africa for three generations, so everyone descended upon him.
The fat and lean chicken lines have been selected for eight generations, so it is expected that the differences among individuals within each line are slight.
In the case of T7, the initial fitness W0 was based on an assay spanning six generations, so the effect is possibly substantial.
One method directly measured fitness (growth rate) from viral titers compared between three and six generations, so that estimate would indeed have been depressed below its true value by the early accumulation of nonlethal mutations.
