The average citizen speaks English, developed over centuries as an unplanned confluence of dozens of dialects.
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The agrarian and industrial revolutions were demolishing the English countryside as it had existed over centuries.
The British state has developed over centuries into a powerful entity charged with delivering important goals.
The national cuisine has been refined over centuries and is treated more reverently than any museum collection in the country.
Yogurt, beer, tofu and bread are made with microorganisms that have been painstakingly modified and optimized over centuries.
The archaeologists may turn up other unexpected finds as they dig back through soil packed down over centuries.
Protesters said a ban on vehicles in "green lanes" would take away historic rights built up over centuries.
Honed over centuries to protect itself, the Vatican in many ways is a 16th-century bureaucracy in a 21st-century world.
Their rap against the guy used to be that he wasn't angry enough over centuries of injustice against African-Americans.
Eberswalde Crater, north of Holden, has a vast river delta with clay soils that seem to have accumulated over centuries.
University environments and their well-trained student affairs offices have developed over centuries to offer effective guardrails for this reckless season of experimentation.
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Turkish officials refuse to concede that Turkey itself, over centuries of domination, forcibly removed hundreds of objects from their homelands.
Values and attitudes inculcated over centuries are so deeply embedded that it takes protracted new experience to alter them significantly.
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The secret process of selecting a new Pope is known as a conclave, governed by rules which have evolved over centuries.
By the way, this book was repudiated by its author, and is an unbalanced screed on American and European transgressions over centuries.
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She waved her hand at them, a gesture practiced over centuries, and even though there was no magic in it, Blork was instantly quiet.
And most crucially, the attempt to play up Hindu-Muslim conflicts in school syllabuses is seen by underprivileged Hindus as glossing over centuries of upper-caste dominance.
It may be forgotten that it arises from mutual agreements and understandings over centuries and that it only has meaning if people accept its meaning.
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The body of laws and international agreements that have been carefully built up (and fought for) over centuries to protect all people from arbitrary authority and persecution.
On the dry seabird islands off the South American and South African coasts, immense deposits of bird droppings, rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, had accumulated over centuries.
From a primitive plant called brassica, laborious trial-and-error genetic modification over centuries created canola, cabbage, bok choi, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, rutabaga, mustard and turnip, among others.
Natural deposits were laid down over centuries by river flooding.
National parliaments generally do have popular legitimacy, acquired over centuries.
My 90-year-old grandmother has experienced in her lifetime what one would imagine happening over centuries: colonialism, a war, industrialization, the rise and fall of a military dictatorship, and maturing democracy.
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Probing the errors that generated the hockey stick can be safely left to the statistical pathologists, while we explore the character and rhythms of climate change over centuries and millennia.
It was maybe because of Berne - where clocks continue to tick over centuries - that the Theory of Relativity, a concept that time is not constant, could have been born.
Handed down over centuries from master to pupil, it is the only whistled language in the world that is fully developed and practised by a large community (more than 22, 000 inhabitants).
There was something to that argument: credit is a learned thing, both a legal concept and a social one that emerged in the developed world over centuries, whose core component is the creation of a sense of obligation between two perfect strangers.
It has been said over centuries that rumour gets half way round the world before truth can put its shoes on - and that was way before the internet, and the ability to send rumour sprinting at the click of a mouse.
The man who reigns over centuries of elitism and grandeur at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in London wears a plain, unpretentious pair of cuff links that belonged to his grandfather a hard-working Liverpool docker who went off to war in 1914 as a humble private.
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