That's the business model that has dominated the last decade or so — well, the last couple of centuries really, but in its current form, 10 - 15 years. (techcrunch.com)
Consider how the past couple of centuries of human activity and population explosion have altered the face of the earth. (corporateknights.com)
In the past couple of centuries people have released quantities of fossil carbon that the planet took hundreds of millions of years to store away. (economist.com)