Sentence examples for understand it happened from inspiring English sources

This, as we understand it, happened during the Archaean period, about 3.5 billion years ago.

As I understand it this happened after Katrina and may yet prove to be the case in some small towns afflicted by the Australian fires on Black Saturday.

"I don't understand it, but it happens every year".

Without it, we may be able to understand what happened, but we'll never understand why it happened.

I don't understand why it happened, or what it means; its purpose eludes me.

Download free source code in C and start tweaking things, adding or removing lines etc. See what's happening and try to understand why it happened.

Maybe I understand it better because it happened to me".

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable.

I understand why it happened".

I don't understand how — it happened".

No one could understand how it happened.