Sentences with phrase «of a few centuries ago»

His four remarkable days in the United Kingdom were an historic event that would have been impossible to imagine even a few short decades ago, to say nothing of a few centuries ago.

unusually low sunspot activity appears to be specifically aligned with the little ice age of a few centuries ago.

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Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

When I was a boy, I was given a book that I resurrected and reread a few years ago: The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by the now long - forgotten James J. Walsh.

Proportionately far fewer of these families exist today than at the turn of the century or even 30 years ago.

the RCC lost its bid to control Europe a few centuries ago - that is the only reason Christianity isnt as effective as Islam in the micromanagement of peoples lives.

We hold to forms of worship designed centuries ago by people very different to us and ignore the massive cultural changes of the last few decades (and I'm not talking about replacing organs and songs with good theology and no tune with guitars and songs with good tunes and bad theology, either) for fear that in attracting anyone new we might alienate imaginary figures we are sure are in the congregation.

Clearly, despite the presence of many religion departments and a few university divinity schools, religion has moved from near the center a century or so ago to far on the incidental periphery.

A few centuries ago most countries, and even most regions within countries, produced the necessities of life.

A kind of nadir was reached a few months ago when Deane Ferm roasted me in the pages of The Christian Century as an exponent of secularism and a contributor to the God - is - dead movement.

I'm positive I have read some time back that the «law of tithing» had remained dead and nailed to the cross until a few centuries ago when the young catholic church brought it back as a means of fleecing the flock.

English bishops are now generally freed from the responsibility of maintaining the medieval mansions in which some of them still reside; their salaries are now with a few exceptions equalized at # 2000 - # 2500, while most English dioceses achieve a minimum stipend for incumbents of # 500 or better.24 In available goods and comparable status this is probably somewhat but not much better than the «passing rich on forty pounds a year «25 Of two centuries agof maintaining the medieval mansions in which some of them still reside; their salaries are now with a few exceptions equalized at # 2000 - # 2500, while most English dioceses achieve a minimum stipend for incumbents of # 500 or better.24 In available goods and comparable status this is probably somewhat but not much better than the «passing rich on forty pounds a year «25 Of two centuries agof them still reside; their salaries are now with a few exceptions equalized at # 2000 - # 2500, while most English dioceses achieve a minimum stipend for incumbents of # 500 or better.24 In available goods and comparable status this is probably somewhat but not much better than the «passing rich on forty pounds a year «25 Of two centuries agof # 500 or better.24 In available goods and comparable status this is probably somewhat but not much better than the «passing rich on forty pounds a year «25 Of two centuries agOf two centuries ago.

A few years ago that would have been the result of the century, now it's just a routine win such has been Liverpool's fall from grace.

After adopting a bitterly contested plan a few years ago to charge students tuition for the first time in a century, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announced that it hoped to make the college tuition - free again for all undergraduates in 10 years.

While a century ago there were fewer than 20 cities holding more than 1 million people, there are now around 450, of which at least 10 have a population of more than 10 million.

The tools were moved out of the museum a few years ago when Verona's town council sold their original home in an 18th century castle to raise funds.

There were only one billion people on the planet as recently as the turn of the 19th century and only a few hundred thousand just 10,000 years ago.

More than a century ago, New York City's East River would freeze over every few decades, creating major issues for commuters who relied on ferries for access to Manhattan from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

The main idea is that living a few centuries / thousands years ago was very stressful, with the lingering threat of death.

Our bodies are toxic: A few centuries ago the air was fresh, the water was clean, we grew most of our own food in our own back yards, and life was more simple.

I co-ordinated the bargain - of - the - century shoes with a bag I bought on holiday in Cape Verde a few years ago, picking up on the snake print detail.

Indeed, online dating tips of the 21st century simply can't be compared with the ones of even a few decades ago - now everything has changed, everything is different.

After two lukewarmly - received movies released a few years ago, 20th Century Fox put into development a reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise.

At a running time of over two hours, there's never a dull moment, and there's even a bit of fodder for pondering, including Thanos» noble intentions that spring from a misinterpretation of the proposition Malthus wrote about a few centuries ago, and just why it is that Thor thinks that Rocky Raccoon is a rabbit.

The positive trends in scores, especially for mathematics, during the first few years of the 21st century have leveled off and the scores are roughly the same as they were a decade ago, though we haven't lost the gains from that last boost.

Few observers present at the creation of the first charter schools a quarter - century ago could have predicted how rapidly this movement would spread or how thoroughly it would come to dominate the education reform agenda.

But few of the articles under those headlines told Wallace's real story, or described the emotions he felt as he made history almost half a century ago.

I'm very sad to say Mabel died suddenly a few years ago of a fluke fungal infection called Aspergillosis that's been the bane of goshawkers for centuries and kills many wild hawks too.

I really hate history, truly do, especially the development of Northern America bores me to death, however «city of Dreams» actually got me interested in how everything was a few centuries ago, especially how people's cognition and perception of the world developed.

A few centuries ago, in the days when betting on the outcome of dog - oriented blood sports was all the rage in England, gamblers bred ferocious dogs to excel in these ghastly affairs.

Today a hot spot for tourists, if you can speak of hot spots in this remote place, but a few centuries ago a military outpost to keep the pirates at bay.

I stopped being a developer around a quarter of a century ago and have seen so many changes since then, with most of the exciting ones happening in the last few years,» said Ahmad.

I remember only a few years ago people were talking about end of the century or later for ice loss — and as events unfold we seem to be rapidly reeling this estimate in closer — prudence would lead me to assume it best to take a pessimistic view in case we continue to shorten our estimates.

The ancient species had numbered more than a million a century ago and — in a crash similar to that of the American bison in the 19th century — was reduced to a few tens of thousands of animals at its nadir.

When the elegant plantation home was built in Baton Rouge, La., some two centuries ago, it was elevated a few feet aboveground — providing greatly boosted odds of limited damage in one of the Mississippi delta's frequent big floods (not to mention protection from termites and the like).

From «lower latitudes» since science started (a few hundreds of years ago) temperature averages for any «zone» you define are calculated from many measurements over centuries.

These few events point out the vulnerability of an electric grid — any electric grid, whether here in the so - called First World or other parts of the planet, whether today, twenty - seven years ago, or in the early part of the twentieth century.

Albert Camus» 1947 novel The Plague describes the strategies deployed by those trapped in a plague - ridden town to avoid facing up to the truth, and the courage of the few who do.The phenomenon of climate denial suggests that three centuries ago the forces of Enlightenment science had entered into a contingent alliance only with the commitment to a rational social order, and that the «subjectivity» that allowed us to extract Nature's secrets also gave us the self - certainty to ignore the knowledge if it proved too discomforting.

Hansen refers to them in this way «They identified eight episodes of large iceberg flux, with the largest flux occurring ∼ 14 600 years ago, providing evidence of an Antarctic contribution to Meltwater Pulse 1A, when sea level rose an average of 3 — 5 m century − 1 for a few centuries (Fairbanks, 1989).»

The son of David discovered as much, a few centuries ago.

It has been warmer than the present for much of the ten thousand years since the last big ice age: it was a little warmer for a few centuries in the medieval warm period around 1100 (when Greenland was settled for grazing) and also during the Roman - Climate Optimum at the time of the Roman Empire (when grapes grew in Scotland), and at least 1 °C warmer for much of the Holocene Climate Optimum (four to eight thousand years ago).

That kind of argument has been used since almost two millennia «All men, except a few very ones who are very depraved and vicious, believe in the dogmas and myths of my community, which have been revealed centuries ago; hence my dogmas are true and my prophecies are undisputable».

They concluded that few of the records showed anything particularly unusual about twentieth century temperatures, especially when compared with the so - called «Medieval Warm Period» a thousand years ago.

We know the current unnatural normalized trends at the climate kinetic scale are due lucrative activities of a few free riders tyranically consuming more than their share of the carbon cycle commons; we know the right solution for this is privatization of the commons; we don't need to know what British children had for lunch nine centuries ago.

This is basically the reversing of their formation sequence between 35 and 10 million years ago, but in the space of a few centuries.

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.

Notice that the vast majority of the all - time records were set more than half a century ago and that there are exceedingly few records set within the past few decades.

The bottom line is that these proxies are attempting to determine whether CO2 leads or follows temperatures — a time resolution of only a few centuries for events that took place hundreds of millions of years ago.

What happened 20 million years ago may be informative (though no information is coming from you) but it is not explanatory of today nor predictive of the next few centuries.