Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] few centuries " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Engineers School is responsible for many of the Empire 's technical innovations over the past few centuries . |
| 2 | The directing principle of this work is that over the past few centuries sexuality has assumed major symbolic importance as a target of social intervention and organisation , to a degree that differentiates this period from those preceding it . |
| 3 | The physical difficulty of working with oceanic animals has limited cetacean study in the past , and much of the information available on whales over the last few centuries has , ironically , come from the whaling industry . |
| 4 | Its reputation as a seat of learning precedes that of Altdorf , although it has been overshadowed by the new capital over the last few centuries . |
| 5 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 6 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |