Sentence examples for working for centuries from inspiring English sources
Mr. Aceto, nicknamed Gigino, was born and raised in these lemon groves, where his family has been working for centuries, first as tenant farmers, then as landowners.
If Xie's procedures typified the way artists had been working for centuries, as Mr. Hearn said they do, then it challenges the idea that Chinese art is as deeply grounded in real-life experience and observation of nature as is commonly believed.
With the racist backlash to the election of President Barack Obama, followed by the election of Trump, who has used rhetoric favored by white nationalists, white Americans have been confronted with a racial divide in the country that our national mythologists had been working for centuries to paper over.
I know how it's going to work for centuries.
Performers, promoters and civic leaders have worked for centuries to connect opera with the populace.
But of course, artists have been knowingly pilfering others' work for centuries too.
In the early 1600s, Stratford's property magnates were attempting to enclose their land, turfing labourers and smallholders off fields where they had lived and worked for centuries.
That is because Battir's eight extended families take daily turns watering their crops from the natural springs that feed their ancient agricultural terraces, a practice they say has worked for centuries.
The deposits had been known and worked for centuries before 1867, when Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone described the smelting of ore into 50- to 100-pound (22.5- to 45-kg) ingots by Katanga-area peoples.
There, as mistress of a 750-acre farm, a forest, a vineyard and a distillery where potatoes were spun into alcohol, Mrs. Perenyi helped work the land much as it had been worked for centuries.
You may also have a New Ager's attraction to the mystical dimension, as it often seems that Oceanic artists are tuned into wavelengths of intuitive consciousness that Western culture has worked for centuries to extinguish in itself.
