centuries

Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.

The increase of e-book sales will force the book business to make changes not seen for centuries.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

For example, over the centuries, they have simulated dialogues in a number of ways.

Over the centuries, Etna's lower slopes have been shaped by human hands to take advantage of rich soils for growing grapes, apples and nuts.

The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright – and the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined.

It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

It's particularly striking centuries later when these issues are still prominent in public discussions about social justice and women's rights.

Most of these churches date from between the 12th and 14th centuries.

When the molten rock of the earth's core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinking and cracking into long columns.

According to Hume, some works of art can exist for centuries because they appeal to unchanging features of human nature.

In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons were the largest bird population in the US.

Many Chinese brands, having developed their reputations over centuries, are facing new challenges from the modern market.

Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind across cultures and through centuries.

They have set themselves apart in their timeless appeal and will probably be enjoyed for centuries into the future.

Works of this type, he believed, spoke to deep and unvarying features of human nature and could continue to exist over centuries.

Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks so large that they the sky for hours.

He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.

People have speculated for centuries about a future without work.

The 17th and 18th centuries were times of radical change and curiosity.

This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, but an average guy, up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.