The construction straddled two centuries.

Nearly two centuries have passed since Tocqueville wrote his masterpiece.

Yet for centuries now, there have been tangible links between these two countries.

But innovation has been part of the developed world s economy for more than two centuries.

Nomenclature The names given to comets have followed several different conventions over the past two centuries.

Notable influences have been Latin (9th 18th centuries), Czech (10th and 14th 15th centuries), Italian (15th 16th centuries), French (18th 19th centuries), German (13 15th and 18th 20th centuries), Hungarian (14th 16th centuries) and Turkish (17th century).

Being Muslim is knowing that Europeans colonized all but four Muslim countries in the last two centuries.

In the first two centuries of colonization, 100,000 Portuguese arrived in Brazil (around 500 colonists per year).

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

It is understandable that Ecuadorans, after almost two centuries and numerous attempts, they may be used to these changes.

In 1613, Portuguese raiders burned down the settlement and the island sank into obscurity for the next two centuries.

The individual pennants had been used for the preceding two centuries and the double pennant since the 19th century.

In the past two centuries, human activities have seriously altered the global carbon cycle, most significantly in the atmosphere.

Over the past two centuries, tropical cyclones have been responsible for the deaths of about 1.9 million people worldwide.

The NCBs have had dozens of years to evolve , at least half a century and in some cases two centuries .

Instead of a static theory a kinetic theory is needed, which was provided two centuries later by Maxwell and Boltzmann.

Exploration of the valley The area has been a major area of modern Egyptological exploration for the last two centuries.

In 1902 he eliminated the sugar subsidy, which had been a feature of the Austrian economy for nearly two centuries.

The empire rose as a bulwark against Muslim advances into South India, which it completely controlled for over two centuries.

Two centuries of Gothic control of Iberia incrementally suppressed the ancient institutions, classic learning, and manners of the Roman Empire.

Augustus' ultimate legacy was the peace and prosperity the Empire enjoyed for the next two centuries under the system he initiated.

The many sonatas which were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half centuries since.

The descendants of these three clans would in two centuries collaborate to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, leading to the Meiji Restoration.

But about two centuries before David, the Hittites had discovered the secret of smelting and processing of iron, and, slowly, that skill spread.

A French historian said, two centuries later, Seldom has so mighty an intellect submitted with such humility to the authority of Jesus Christ.

Perhaps the moral and intellectual tide will be reversed, and America will remain exceptional for the reasons that Tocqueville identified two centuries ago.

The town lay buried for centuries.

15th and 16th centuries During the 15th and 16th centuries, Talavera achieved great recognition, thanks to its pottery.

This sighting is generally considered doubtful, because the rings are quite faint, and in the two following centuries none were noted by other observers.

In contemporary liturgical use, there are two traditions of pronunciation, arising from successive reforms in the 19th and 20th centuries (see Coptic pronunciation reform).

After several refinements, this method, called the lead chamber process or chamber process , remained the standard for sulfuric acid production for almost two centuries.

In the past two centuries, it has become a vast subject with applications in areas as diverse as signal processing, quantum mechanics, and neuroscience.

The Wandering Jew also appears in two English broadside ballads of the 17th and 18th centuries, The Wandering Jew, and The Wandering Jew's Chronicle.

Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Systematizing, naming and classifying dominated natural history throughout much of the 17th and 18th centuries.

They fought for their rights for over two centuries, and maybe because they sacrifice other minorities, Hispanic, Asian, we would suffer more in the mainstream.

Although Shrovetide processions take place throughout the Czech Republic, in the Hlinecko Region they have been preserved in their almost original form for two centuries.

The first two centuries of the Empire's existence were a period of unprecedented political stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana , or Roman Peace .

This book is largely responsible for the image, prevalent for the following two and a half centuries, of Dee as a dupe and deluded fanatic.

Gallicised into 'Huguenot', often used deprecatingly, the word became, during two and a half centuries of terror and triumph, a badge of enduring honour and courage.

Two centuries after that, towards the end of the 1st century BC, it included the rest of modern France, Greece, and much of the eastern Mediterranean.

It became a virtual backwater for two centuries after the Thirty Years' War (1618 48), when it was fought over by Hessen Darmstadt and Hesse Kassel.

If a particular theologian crosses over two centuries, he may be listed in the latter century or in the century with which he is best identified.

Notably, Forman was able to shoot scenes in the Count Nostitz Theatre in Prague, where Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito debuted two centuries before.

The battle marked the end of unified resistance to the Mongols and inaugurated two centuries of the Mongol domination of modern day Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

Ice sheets would continue to disintegrate for centuries.