Centuries in sentence

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Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.

And it should take into account what we know of the aesthetic interests of isolated hunter-gatherer bands that survived into the 19th and the 20th centuries.

These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.

That had not happened in the three centuries in which African Americans had been on that soil at that time.

And the relationship to landscape was that of farmers who have been farming the same piece of ground for 40 centuries.

You can't farm the same piece of ground for 40 centuries without understanding nutrient flow.

Three years of dirty energy with not many jobs, or centuries of clean energy with the potential for developing expertise and improvements in efficiency based on technical skills, and developing local knowledge about how to get the most out of that region's wind.

And so, it's been a sea of white for centuries.

Throughout centuries, people have been fighting for their identity.

That, for centuries, we've inherited a view of human nature based on the notion that we're divided selves, that reason is separated from the emotions and that society progresses to the extent that reason can suppress the passions.

And in terms of time, we now know that ice sheets not only evolve over the timescale of millennia and centuries, but they're also changing over the scale of years and days.

But there is a curious question: If Islamic modernism was so popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, why did Islamism become so popular in the rest of the 20th century?

Fourteen years ago, I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet, used the same way for centuries.

And this became considerably easier with the development of the printing press some centuries ago.

Yeah, it took hundreds of people over centuries to come to this design.

And yet, there was a great battle in the 17th and 18th centuries to change the culture of science, so that it became expected that when a scientist made a discovery, they would reveal it in a journal.

We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries.

The smaller ones happen more often, but probably on the order of a millennium, every few centuries or every few thousand years.

Life hadn't changed for centuries.

And in fact, we have known for centuries about the transcendent power of solitude.

Careful examination shows that the temperature changes slightly lead the CO2 changes by a few centuries.

Ice sheets would continue to disintegrate for centuries.

A few centuries later, when he was your age, Franz Schubert was doing the dishes for his family, but that did not keep him from composing two symphonies, four operas and two complete masses as a youngster.

And the way we react to them has changed radically over the centuries, as have our preferences for them.

So in the first eight centuries or so of this tradition the big 'what' was to praise God.

So my collaborator Erez and I were considering the following fact: that two kings separated by centuries will speak a very different language.

So Erez and I followed the fate of over 100 irregular verbs through 12 centuries of English language, and we saw that there's actually a very simple mathematical pattern that captures this complex historical change, namely, if a verb is 100 times more frequent than another, it regularizes 10 times slower.

So here Steve Pinker and I were considering the magnitude of wars during the last two centuries.

So here mathematics is able to link a well-known feature of the individual mind with a long-term historical pattern that unfolds over centuries and across continents.

This is not just a journey for scientists, it is for all of us, because the decisions we collectively make over the next decade will affect what the ocean looks like for centuries to come.

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