Centuries in sentence

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That fury that my friend felt holds centuries of never being able to directly address or express our indignation, our frustration and our rage.

That's one of the reasons so much of what we've come to think of as Western science and mathematics and engineering was really worked out in the first few centuries of the Common Era by the Persians and the Arabs and the Turks.

Now, this leadership is a far cry from the traditional leaders that Africans have known for centuries.

That is not the kind of system Africans had known for centuries.

I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work.

This is something we've faced several times over the last few centuries.

And this is Goethe, who is neither Bulgarian nor a political scientist, some centuries ago he said, "There is a big shadow where there is much light."

The people who operated this ice house many centuries ago, would pour water in the pool you see on the left in the early evening hours, as the sun set.

Now, in our galleries, we show 14 centuries of the development of different Islamic cultures across a vast geographic spread, and, again, hundreds of thousands of people have come to see these galleries since they opened last October.

Well, this happens to be the most important painting we have in Italy by Leonardo da Vinci, and look at the wonderful images of faces that nobody has seen for five centuries.

Because of this elephant, over 70 new images came out, never seen for centuries.

We came to understand and to prove that the brown coating that we see today was not done by Leonardo da Vinci, which left us only the other drawing that for five centuries we were not able to see, so thanks only to technology.

It's raku, which is a kind of pottery that began in Japan centuries ago as a way of making bowls for the Japanese tea ceremony.

You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years, although there seems to have been a tipping point at the onset of the Age of Reason in the sixteenth century.

Well, for the past few centuries we have defined beauty not just as health and youth and symmetry that we're biologically programmed to admire, but also as tall, slender figures, and femininity and white skin.

Now here's eight centuries of economic growth.

You'll notice that, for the first four centuries, there's hardly any growth at all, just 0.2 percent.

I can make the curved line end anywhere I wanted, but I decided I would end it at 0.2, just like the U.K. growth for the first four centuries.

But we've also discovered something inspiring, which is that the technology we're developing has the potential to help life flourish like never before, not just for centuries but for billions of years, and not just on earth but throughout much of this amazing cosmos.

That is, until 1998, when one Yale professor John Coleman Darnell discovered these inscriptions in the Thebes desert on the limestone cliffs in western Egypt, and these have been dated at between 1800 and 1900 B.C., centuries before Mesopotamia.

So we've known how to cure malaria for centuries.

Diseases we've had in check for decades and centuries burst forth again and start to harm us.

And if you divide the larger number by the smaller number, then these ratios get closer and closer to about 1.618, known to many people as the Golden Ratio, a number which has fascinated mathematicians, scientists and artists for centuries.

For centuries, it's been said that female lions do all of the hunting out in the open savanna, and male lions do nothing until it's time for dinner.

But just those arguments had to be made, and they were, in centuries past.

But fully two centuries before, the Enlightenment thinker Jeremy Bentham had exposed the indefensibility of customary practices such as the cruelty to animals.

They've been celebrated in art and in poetry for centuries.

So there have been these long debates over the centuries, in that case, actually, we can say over the millennia, about religion.

And of course, this is what wise beings through the centuries from every tradition have been telling us.

Again, none of this is new; that's why Shakespeare and the Stoics were telling us this centuries ago, but Shakespeare never had to face 200 emails in a day.

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