The remarkable increase in agricultural productivity over the past two centuries demonstrates this clearly.

This conception of power led in past centuries to kings handing over their subjects to slave traders.

This region has a rich range of natural resources exploited by European explorers over the past couple of centuries.

In centuries past, revolutionaries were farmers or blacksmiths or merchants now they are Google executives and Facebook friends.

The sot is still used today, much in the same manner as it was in the past centuries.

Over the past few centuries, there have been three systems of international order economic and military domination a balance of power and shared sovereignty.

As in the past, today's great houses are limited to heads of state, the very rich, or those who have inherited them few in the developed world are staffed at the level of past centuries.

But we have, somehow, in the course of the last few centuries, or even decades, started to cultivate an image of a mythical, rural agricultural past.

Despite its remote location and barren nature, the island has seen commercial activities in past centuries, such as coal mining, fishing and whaling.

In the past two centuries, it has become a vast subject with applications in areas as diverse as signal processing, quantum mechanics, and neuroscience.

For this reason, the proportion of resources that we expend on lighting has remained virtually unchanged for the past three centuries, at about 0.72 of gross domestic product.

In the absence of an analog to the West s Industrial Revolution, Muslims (and especially Arabs) have faced multiple humiliations and partial colonization over the past two centuries.

We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries.

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He once said that the so called Boom, in reality, is the result of four centuries that, literarily, reached a moment of urgency in which fiction became the way to organize lessons from the past.

Only in the past two centuries, with the rise of modern economic life, did the world's population soar, from around one billion people in 1820 to 6.3 billion today and around 9 billion by 2050.

It took the Romans nearly two centuries to complete the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, though they had control of it for over six centuries.

The book s plot spans two centuries of revolution. Then, suddenly,

It remained the sole athenaeum of southern Italy for centuries.

In, a month, you've grown centuries' worth.

Indeed, the location of financial activity has changed through the centuries.

Now, this is of course a topic of philosophical debate for centuries.

Over the centuries, a unique Fijian culture developed.

There is an ample and cheap supply of coal for several centuries.

And yet, throughout these centuries of treaty making, violence between countries persisted.

Culture France has been a center of Western cultural development for centuries.

In the absence of an analog to the West s Industrial Revolution, Muslims (and especially Arabs) have faced multiple humiliations and partial colonization over the past two centuries. The resulting legacy of grievance, shame, and anger is part of what underpins the region s current malaise.

By the standards of centuries ago, we live in a world of unbelievable wealth.

The Levant has, of course, been the scene of countless conflicts through the centuries.

The learned, cultured, and radiant traditions of earlier centuries seem to have vanished.

In the ensuing centuries, Iceland became one of the poorest countries in Europe.

Assyria had a period of empire from the 19th to 18th centuries BC.

The various races of Myanmar had lived together and interacted harmoniously for centuries.

Nearly two centuries have passed since Tocqueville wrote his masterpiece.

In your eyes, we have become a thousand centuries smaller,

China has been trading with Southeast Asian countries for centuries.

Christianity grew rapidly in Sicily during the next two centuries.

The Chinese know that Park values her relationship with the United States, but they also understand that she, like most mature South Korean leaders, desires a solid relationship with China as well one based (unlike in centuries past) on mutual respect.

Having dominated East and Southeast Asia for all but the last two centuries of the past two millennia, China is chafing at the current US led regional order of sovereign states, in which even the smallest enjoys the same rights, privileges, and protection as the largest.

Rome remained dominant for more than three centuries after the apogee of Roman power.

A second priority will be to decide the fate of Nepal s centuries old monarchy.

Yazidis have been discriminated against for centuries and are accused of being 'devil worshipers.'

In earlier centuries, docks were built on the banks of the Nieuwe Maas river.

In certain areas, such as the elimination of hunger, we could be centuries away.

England's population between the 11th and 16th centuries remained at around 2.25 million, and China's population until the 17th century remained between 60 and 100 million for 13 centuries.