centurieslong

(1) Marx, according to one interpretation of the “Asiatic Mode of Production,” (2) regarded them as the cause of centurieslong stagnation of the process of economic evolution and was happy that British colonialism in India would set in motion fundamental changes.

2001, V. Subramaniam, “Indian Legacy of Administration”, in Ali Farazmand, editor, Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration (Public Administration and Public Policy; 94), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 77

This bespeaks a striving analogous to the centurieslong attempt to establish an earthly counterpart to the music of the spheres, whose supposed essence – the very paragon of harmony – is said to be inspired by the harmonic interplay of celestial bodies in intergalactic space.

2001, “Olga Neuwirth”, in Zeitenwechsel: 35 Jahre Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, [Berlin]: DAAD, →OCLC

[…] the inner relationship of my own work to the Black Forest and its people comes from a centurieslong and irreplaceable rootedness in the Alemannian Swabian soil […]

2002, Tom Paulin, “Schwarzwald oder Bauhaus”, in The Invasion Handbook, London: Faber and Faber, published 2003, →ISBN, page 88

The centurieslong Uşak series, including other western Anatolian types such as large- and small-pattern Holbeins and Lottos are almost certainly workshop products.

2003, Murray L. Eiland Jr., Murray Eiland III, Oriental Carpets: A Complete Guide, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Bulfinch Press, AOL Time Warner Book Group, page 79, column 2

I believe that we are at a point in time when we are witnessing a change in the historical record, a change in the discipline of historical writing that, as Vine Deloria Jr. put it, moves away from the “centurieslong simplistic doctrinal interpretation of history as a good white man/bad Indian scenario.”

2006, Robert Hieronimus with Laura Cortner, Founding Fathers, Secret Societies: Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and the Decoding of the Great Seal, Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, →ISBN