Nine centuries ago.

A piece of sculpture made centuries ago by some oversexed Italian.

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

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

By the standards of centuries ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth. Within two generations human literacy will be nearly universal.

Islam legislated the rights of women 14 centuries ago, comprehensively and in depth. It guaranteed their protection and ensured the continuity of such rights.

Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural law concept of inalienable human rights. However, it took nearly two centuries of wars, political and social disasters, and decolonization before this idea became globally accepted, at least in theory.

BERLIN Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural law concept of inalienable human rights. However, it took nearly two centuries of wars, political and social disasters, and decolonization before this idea became globally accepted, at least in theory.

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

The plaintiffs are members of Europe s poorest and largest minority group the Roma, or Gypsies, whose ancestors are believed to have migrated from India centuries ago.

The causes of discrimination against women that we are witnessing nowadays cannot be viewed as a new phase of the same hegemonic culture of centuries ago.

Darkness for 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.

A couple of centuries.

Why not eight centuries?

The centuries rolled by.

The construction straddled two centuries.

For centuries we have declared independence

The underworld will applaud for centuries!

For the first time since the Revolutionary War, two centuries ago, America has had to turn to foreigners for financing, because US households have been saving nothing . The numbers are hard to believe.

And so they stand together for centuries.

Ice sheets would continue to disintegrate for centuries.

In many States, it has taken several centuries.

Her love for you may bridge the centuries.

After centuries of investigation, it comes to this.

Through the centuries, our laws have been modified.

The labor of centuries, gone in an instant.

Unrepaired for centuries. Maybe unlivedin for as long.

Here, within our reach, golden centuries of peace.

Their hatred will live for centuries to come.

That's the Heddaby face. Inbred for centuries. Appalling.

A similar dynamic is evident in European history, particularly in the revolutions and counter revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indeed, the legacy of that dynamic was fully overcome in Europe only two decades ago.

Finally, while the Taliban lost power ten years ago, discrimination and violence against women has occurred in Afghan society for centuries. Thus, despite some progress, public and official sensitivity to violence against women is only slowly emerging.

The mere existence of this fact forces us to recognize that for the hungry of the third world there is no liberty and even less the equality and fraternity symbolized two centuries ago by the French revolution.

The people have lived the same way for centuries.

Luckily, all of this changed a couple of centuries later.

The book s plot spans two centuries of revolution. Then, suddenly,

But that international city must balance five centuries of imbalance.

The passageway's been there for centuries. That's no tall tale.

I have centuries of rest ahead of me, thank you.

People have been trying to find a way for centuries.

Thousands of centuries had passed, but the Earth stayed green.

Over the centuries, landslides have been burying this ancient town

I agree with Gordon that I would rather give up my mobile phone and even the Internet than go without indoor plumbing and electricity. But that just means that we are lucky to be living now rather than a century ago (and even luckier to be living now than two centuries ago or in the middle ages).

With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today and are often superior to modern water megaprojects.