Below you will find example sentences with "two centuries". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Two Centuries in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: centuries
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.4 words

Words in this phrase

two centuries

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • two can mean: A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Very common word
  • centuries can mean: plural of century Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

built nearly two centuries ago 1× established over two centuries ago ensures 1× for almost two centuries 1× for around two centuries before war 1× for nearly two centuries liberia s 1× for two centuries euclid had 1× jerusalem nearly two centuries before in 1× more than two centuries of existence 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and imagine if 1× athens maintained a 1× built originally in 1× christmas day marking 1× cwa was for 1× despite periodic infatuations 1×

Common sentence endings:

two centuries ago 2× a legal identity 1× according to walesonline 1× almost two centuries 1× and 20th centuries 1× centuries of existence 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

first 4× nearly 3× almost 3× ago 3× held 3× war 3× built 3× bridge 3× ended 2× half 2× leaders 2× next 2×

Related phrases

two weeks two daughters two years two goals two touchdowns two seasons two sides rating two two assists two decades

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around centuries:

centuries ago 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

two categories two brothers two boys two bodies two blocks two bedroom

Just after it in the phrase index:

two consecutive two counties two countries two counts two daughters two days

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

two weeks two daughters two years two goals two touchdowns two seasons

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "two centuries" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 26.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as built nearly two centuries ago, established over two centuries ago ensures, first, nearly and almost stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with two weeks, two daughters, two years and centuries ago, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with two centuries

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

We plan for two years, they plan for two centuries. (10 words)

Over the past two centuries, hundreds have tried, but no one has come remotely close to winning. (17 words)

For the next two centuries relations between the two states varied from open war to preparing for war. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Ferrari said the anticipated completion date for the Dunlap Creek Bridge project is December 2025, but noted it’s difficult to offer a firm date because there are many unknowns in reconstructing a bridge built nearly two centuries ago. (39 words)

Christmas Day, marking the birth of Jesus Christ, will also mark the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem nearly two centuries before, in a rare joint occurrence. (37 words)

Athens maintained a democracy for around two centuries, before war with Sparta caused a revolution that effectively ended Athenian democracy in 411 B.C. Today, Greece utilizes a parliamentary republic, with three branches. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

Kohli ended up with two centuries and six half-centuries, while Faf scored eight half-tons, though the poor performance of the middle order ultimately cost them the season.

CWA was for nearly two centuries Liberia's leading secondary institution, the school that trained most Liberian leaders, intellectuals and civil servants in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Archaeological Survey of India website still presents the traditional dating: "The second phase of paintings started around 5th – 6th centuries A.D. and continued for the next two centuries".

We have almost 70 castles here, but it’s one of only two that look pretty much the same as they did two centuries ago.

The remains of two people from a now-extinct Newfoundland First Nation will be returned to Canada after being held in Scotland for almost two centuries.

We plan for two years, they plan for two centuries.

For the next two centuries relations between the two states varied from open war to preparing for war.

For two centuries Euclid had been taught from two Latin translations taken from an Arabic source; these contained errors in Book V, the Eudoxian theory of proportion, which rendered it unusable.

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Athens maintained a democracy for around two centuries, before war with Sparta caused a revolution that effectively ended Athenian democracy in 411 B.C. Today, Greece utilizes a parliamentary republic, with three branches.

Built originally in the 18th century, it was modified and extended in the following two centuries, according to WalesOnline.

For the first two centuries of American history, patriarchy was legal under a system known as “” that held that no female person had a legal identity.

Over the past two centuries, hundreds have tried, but no one has come remotely close to winning.

The Australian economy has benefited greatly from a history extending across more than two centuries of the extraction of valuable minerals and resources from deep within the earth.

The bridge was originally built in 1816, but it was not until almost two centuries later that the Belfast shipbuilders worked on the structure.

This summer marks 200 years since that visit, and now is a good time to highlight the past two centuries of written records of Kīlauea’s summit activity.

And imagine if, in the turmoil of The Terror, the location of his grave had been forgotten, and only discovered two centuries later beneath a Paris Metro station.

Christmas Day, marking the birth of Jesus Christ, will also mark the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem nearly two centuries before, in a rare joint occurrence.

Despite periodic infatuations with charismatic leaders, its constitutional framework— established over two centuries ago— ensures a robust system of checks and balances.

Earlier this year, the esteemed Royal Academy of Arts held an exhibition about how British art was implicated by slavery -- a first in its more than two centuries of existence.

Ferrari said the anticipated completion date for the Dunlap Creek Bridge project is December 2025, but noted it’s difficult to offer a firm date because there are many unknowns in reconstructing a bridge built nearly two centuries ago.

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