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This manuscript, unfortunately, has been very badly damaged, and it's damaged because for
centuries
it had been used and handled in swearing in ceremonies in the church.
Haiti is still recovering from the consequences
centuries
later.
The symptoms of our illnesses are annoying, but collectively, they signify an ancient process that will continue barricading our bodies against the outside world for
centuries
to come.
But over the next two centuries, the British Empire slowly transitioned, first approving the metric system as an optional alternative before gradually making it offical.
Through the centuries, we've had the chance to test those ideas through writing and experience, and have accepted some while rejecting others.
Is it a weird coincidence or a deeper connection stretching across the
centuries?
Over the next few centuries, this became a model for Cathedrals throughout Europe.
And like many pirates of that era, he flew a flag that bore the macabre symbols of a human skull and a pair of crossed bones, because those motifs had signified death in so many cultures for centuries, that their meaning was instantly recognizable, even in the lawless, illiterate world of the high seas: surrender or you'll suffer.
In elephants or people, it would take
centuries
for a trait to spread widely enough to matter.
But about four
centuries
before Christ, this starts ramping up very rapidly to an almost five-fold increase of books getting closer, and closer and closer to the concept of introspection.
And then we get the peak of introspection in "The Confessions of Saint Augustine," about four
centuries
after Christ.
Their lively, evolving friendship is often credited as the original hero and sidekick duo, inspiring
centuries
of fictional partnerships.
Over the next few centuries, chickens accompanied humans wherever they went, spreading throughout the world through trade, conquest, and colonization.
From gladiators and gifts to the gods, to traveling companions and research subjects, chickens have played many roles over the
centuries.
It took centuries, even, for humans to realize what we had been ignoring for so long.
For centuries, indigenous women told stories by weaving complex patterns on looms, and an unexpected skill helped us for the new device.
For centuries, they've been used to look at things like bacteria.
Spanning the late 11th and early 12th
centuries
of Byzantine history, the Alexiad recounts the tumultuous events of Alexios’s reign, and Anna’s own reactions to those events, like bursting into tears at the thought of the deaths of her parents and husband.
In the
centuries
after her death, Anna’s Alexiad was copied over and over, and remains an invaluable eyewitness account of Alexios’s reign today.
It's only been a few
centuries
since we've actually, most of us, thought of our planet as spherical.
If it had carried on growing at two percent a year for just another couple of centuries, the entire planet would be covered with a seething mass of human bodies all touching each other.
A few
centuries
after that, a griffon vulture also died in the same vicinity.
Think about it: if you were sitting there in 1750 trying to figure out the big changes coming to society in the 19th, the 20th centuries, automated machines, computers, artificial intelligence, a programmable flute entertaining the Parisian elite would have been as powerful a clue as anything else at the time.
Satellites in high orbits like these could remain there for
centuries.
The problem is that after a few centuries, the date remains on the calendar, but the love affair is long dead.
We know from Darwin, if we go back two centuries, that evolution and genetics profoundly have impacted humanity, who we are today.
What if these open questions, for centuries, are destined to be unanswered for the foreseeable future?
We sense that after
centuries
of scientific research, we're beginning to make significant inroads into understanding some of the most fundamental principles of life.
The Industrial Age lasted a couple of
centuries.
YNH: For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well.
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