centuries

The basic idea here is actually a very old approach -- clocks have been powered this way for centuries.

This is a reaction to the centuries-old stigma against Anglo-Saxon derived words as being crude or inelegant.

Events centuries past is what we call history:) When a nation has outlived the centuries creating a vast cultural background, people tend to care about its importance.

Yet, the earthquake that triggers it has been building-up underground for years, for decades or centuries.

Liberalism has been a powerful force in the world for centuries and it rests on the idea of natural rights.

Have you not noticed that a few centuries ago society and technology made evolutionary instincts for reproductive success mostly obsolete?

Why worry about events centuries past when there's so much to worry about in the future?

It seems that all the Mediterranean cultures have been doing something wrong for some centuries.

That wealth was built over centuries by the ancestors of the current citizens.

We must gird our loins to encounter the Nemesis of seven centuries’ misgovernment.

There are quite a few projects going on in Scotland which are attempting to restore species that were extirpated over the past few centuries.

Even a couple of centuries after Elgin did his deed, it matters.

My first though on reading the headline was "has New York even had fire hydrants for centuries?".

Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.” ~Albert Einstein Still Einstein did not say that the previous centuries of physics were bullshit.

Now we have half-stepped away from our long centuries of despoilment, promising, “Never again.” But still we are haunted.

The landed gentry lost much of its status and importance during 19th and 20th centuries, or joined (if they invested wisely) the class what the left likes to call "capitalists".