Examples of 'took centuries' in a sentence
Meaning of "took centuries"
Indicates that a process or event lasted for an extensive period of time, typically lasting hundreds of years
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It took centuries to discover this ancient marvel.
Like many cathedrals it took centuries to build.
It took centuries for us to make them believe.
A harmony that took centuries to build.
It took centuries for us to undo the damage.
Securities markets took centuries to develop.
It took centuries for us to evolve our practices.
Other energy transitions took centuries.
It took centuries for this separation to occur.
Some of the big cathedrals took centuries to build.
And it took centuries to push it away.
The writer who took centuries.
And it took centuries for people to go.
The process likely took centuries.
We too took centuries to get where we are now.
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Looks like it took centuries.
It took centuries to perfect our behaviour.
Construction took centuries.
It took centuries before we realized the world was round.
But we would have to surrender freedoms that took centuries to achieve.
It took centuries for good sense.
Scholars admit that it was a developed doctrine which took centuries to formulate.
They often took centuries to build.
The slow transition from myth to logos was an evolution that took centuries to complete.
And scientists took centuries to actually reach a consensus.
Latin American cities drain their aquifers that took centuries in being filled.
It took centuries to map them.
They seem to have forgotten that they took centuries to make their system work.
It took centuries for the art of dim sum to develop.
The process of finding precise measures took centuries and the contribution of very great scholars.
It took centuries for us to make them believe we were only bad dreams.
Finding a method of determining longitude took centuries and involved some of the greatest scientific minds.
It took centuries to reach those numbers which might be something like a million.
It took China decades to achieve what the developed countries took centuries to achieve.
It took centuries for us.
The Elders warred against one another in battles that took centuries to complete.
It took centuries to construct.
After all, your own countries took centuries to do so.
It took centuries to work out that penicillin could come from mould.
But that 's evolution that took centuries to develop.
It took centuries.
We finally translated the characters . It took centuries.
What took centuries to grow may take a long time to chop down.
The corpse was so large, it took centuries just to rot halfway.
It took centuries to know the cause of scurvy and how to fight against it.
Today 's industrialised countries took centuries to develop effective public sector institutions.
It took centuries for the democratic tradition to develop in the West.
Think about technological float, it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance.
It took centuries for Greece to recover.
Yet in spite of its popularity, it took centuries for this much-loved prayer to develop.
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