Sentences with phrase «centuries elapsed»

But two centuries elapsed before these ideas attained cultural dominion in the West (or at least in the Anglo - American portion of it).

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In the place of empire there was a plural historical subject, the great European nations, whose drama was that each considered itself the depository of a universal mission, creating potential conflicts whose fatal impact we have experienced so painfully in the century that has just elapsed.

It will not be long before a quarter of the 21st century will have elapsed.

Whether the suppositions it makes that there is a cause and effect underpinned by mans activities are accurate or not will take more time to elapse and a better understanding of the natural processes over many centuries to evolve..

Lord Hoffmann thought it significant that no court has found it necessary to decide the question either way in the period of nearly a century that has elapsed since Pearson.