In earlier centuries, Catholics in America were in a position similar to today's Muslims.
What was, in earlier centuries, revered by the wise and the sane, has become, in our post-apocalyptic age, food for a mind diseased.
In earlier centuries, it was the custom for kings of Thailand to present those rivals whom they wished to overawe with one of their own white elephants.
Then it emerged that the temperature had begun rising centuries earlier than carbon dioxide.
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We're talking not about a Beltway crowd in 2008 but about the policymakers in London four centuries earlier.
With the exception of a few probable but unrecorded visits by Arab seafarers centuries earlier, the island had no human history at all.
Centuries earlier, work focused on different aspects of poverty.
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Codner points to the Persian empire which extended over Afghan soil in the 18th century, having contributed to the collapse of the once-mighty Kabul-based Mughal empire that reigned over the region two centuries earlier.
This would have been unthinkable two centuries earlier.
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The printing press or the art of movable type that would trigger an explosion of Christian civilization, with the Gutenberg revolution in Germany, had been invented centuries earlier by the Chinese, but with no similar effect.
Earlier, Marcus Trescothick, Ian Blackwell and Peter Trego scored centuries to lift Somerset to 469.
The capital's power, whether exerted by Moscow or (in earlier days) by St Petersburg, has awed provincials for centuries.
The left-handed Marsh has now scored three half-centuries in six innings for Australia, after he starred in the inaugural Indian Premier League tournament earlier this year.
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