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Answer for the clue "Hundred-year periods ", 9 letters:
centuries

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" Centuries " is a song by the American alternative rock band Fall Out Boy , released September 9, 2014 as the lead single from their sixth studio album, American Beauty/American Psycho (2015).The song's genre is pop rock . It was co-written by Fall Out ...

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Century \Cen"tu*ry\, n.; pl. Centuries . [L. centuria (in senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See Cent .] A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. [Archaic.] And on it said a century of prayers. --Shak. A ...

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n. (plural of century English)

Usage examples of centuries.

I mounted the stone steps worn with countless centuries of footfalls and spiraled my way up and up, only a little bit afraid.

I reasoned that as long as we were probably going to spend the next dozen or so centuries together, we might as well learn to get along.

I moved around quite a bit during the next several centuries, however.

We ran across a tribe of Morindim and they told us that they've been using that bridge for centuries to visit the Karands.

The founder of a dynasty is usually vigorous and gifted, but as the centuries roll by, his successors become progressively less so.

The passing centuries have altered the countryside down there to some degree, but now that I think back on it, I followed almost exactly the same route as I did three thousand years later when a group of friends and I were going south on the trail of the Orb.

Just in passing, I'd like to let you know that over the centuries I've spent far more time holding tankards than I have drinking from them.

Beldin had studied music for a couple of quiet centuries once, and that hymn was very impressive, but eighty-four-part harmony is just a little complicated for my taste.

The Tolnedrans have been objecting to this rather informal yearly gathering for centuries now--largely because they aren't invited.

I don't have time to come down here every few centuries to educate you.

I've been obliged to do a lot of things down through those endless centuries, but explaining our rather unique situation to those boys could very well have been the most important.

Pol and I had just spent several centuries trying to keep a lid on open hostilities here in the West, and this incipient confrontation threatened to blow that lid off.

A few of them did manage to escape, but it was centuries before there were enough Nadraks again even to worry about.

Over the centuries, his Grolims have killed more Angaraks than the Alorns ever have.

The Vorduvians and the Honethites had been passing the crown back and forth between them for centuries, so when Ran Vordue XX died without an heir, the Honeths assumed that it was their turn again.