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Even Arnold Houbraken, a noted historian of Dutch Golden Age paintings and the sole authority on Cuyp for the hundred years following his death, paints a very thin biographical picture.
Even more than two hundred years later, during the last century, when Western specialists in Chinese, who had by that time created the discipline known as sinology, designed the early forms of numerous transcriptions used today, the first mistakes of enthusiastic missionaries, envoys and business men were not fully eliminated.
Even if we do make some sort of connection between the 4th century Huns and the 1st century Xiongnu, an awful lot of water has passed under an awful lot of bridges in the three hundred years ' worth of lost history.
Of all the reformers who preceded Martin Luther, Wycliffe put most emphasis on Scripture: " Even though there were a hundred popes and though every mendicant monk were a cardinal, they would be entitled to confidence only insofar as they accorded with the Bible.
Even though the band is regularly described as being over a hundred men, usually only three or four are specified.
Even after two hundred years, its popularity on the modern opera stage attests to that greatness.
Even today, two hundred years later, its ferocity is astonishing.
Even if an infant was wailing in agony just a few hundred meters away, its mother who would clearly recognise its voice and would be frantic about his safety ( or alternatively run towards her infant depending on her own perceived safety ), would often simply stare in his direction visibly agitated.
Even if the Fossdyke had been built by the Romans it needs a high level of maintenance and after a few hundred years of neglect it would have been difficult to find, let alone navigate.
Even though Christchurch has been the property of the Anglican church for nearly five hundred years, it is still viewed by the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope as the primary official Dublin cathedral, since it was so designated by the pope at the request of the then Archbishop of Dublin, St. Laurence O ' Toole in the 12th century.
Even a few hundred kilometers away from a metropolitan area where the sky can appear to be very dark, it is still the residual light pollution that sets the limit on the visibility of faint objects.
Even so, he was able to characterize over one hundred families of plants, helping to lay the empirical basis of general botany.
Even at mesoscales ( a horizontal range of 5 to several hundred kilometres ), this effect is noticeable ; it is what brings the sea breeze, air cooled by the water, ashore in the day, and carries the land breeze, air cooled by contact with the ground, out to sea during the night.
Even now, roughly ten percent of the town's population according to some estimates adhere to this ancient religion, and though their Atashkadeh ( Fire Temple ) was turned into a mosque after the Islamic Conquest of Persia, a dignified new fire temple was inaugurated thirteen hundred years later.
Even though the deputies introduced more than four hundred amendments and the document increased more than twice in volume as compared with the Charter of 1996, the changes were relatively minor.
Even though Wawa's mountain of iron ore still had more to give, operations were shut down in June 1998, a hundred years after iron was first discovered in this remote corner of northern Algoma.
Even if a hundred acharonim disagree with him ... no teacher is permitted to rule with chumra contrary to Maran's instructions to rule leniently, even if many disagree with Maran ... and it is not even permitted to act with chumra where Maran has ruled leniently on the matter, since the rulings of Maran, who is the Mara D ' Atra and we have received his instructions, were determined as Halakha to Moses at Sinai over which there is no dispute, and he who deviates right or left dishonours his teachers.
Even within that community, Macanese is actively spoken by just several dozen elderly individuals, mostly women in their eighties or nineties, in Macau and Hong Kong, and only a few hundred people among the Macanese Diaspora overseas, namely in California.
Even without the spaced armour, the front plates would have been immune against K-bullet fire from a distance of two hundred metres, because of their 60 ° angling, providing an effective line-of-sight thickness of 22. 8 millimetres.
Even in Arkansas, however, the GOP won three of six statewide down-ballot positions that they often did not field candidates for in even recent years as well as went from eight to fifteen out of thirty-five seats in the state senate and from twenty-eight to forty-five out of one hundred in the state house of representatives.
Even so, pride in the village is high, with the general level of crime and vandalism being pretty low despite the close proximity of the South East Dorset conurbation with a combined population of three to four hundred thousand people.
Even hundred years ago, from the Teens to the Thirties of the 20th century, the area around Motzstraße was recognized as a gay-friendly neighborhood.
#" Even a good surety has to be applied to for a hundred morrows ; a bad one for a hundred thousand.

Even and years
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
Even two or three years ago I doubt that she'd have become involved in this unfortunate Johnston affair.
Even though one actor may have years of training, they always strive for more lessons ; the cinematic and theatrical world is always changing and because of this, the actor must stay as up to date as possible.
Even when he had achieved popularity and his work was in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later.
Even 70 years later, some people still regard themselves bound to remain silent.
Even in his early years, Linnaeus seemed to have a liking for plants, flowers in particular.
Even numbered years the NL had home field advantage.
Even in 2010, more than forty years after the U. S. ban, California condors which feed on sea lions at Big Sur which in turn feed in the Palos Verdes Shelf area of the Montrose Chemical Superfund site seemed to be having continued thin-shell problems.
Even if an intelligent civilization reaches the end of its lifetime after, for example, 10, 000 years, life may still prevail on the planet for billions of years, permitting the next civilization to evolve.
Even though the French and Indian War continued over the next several years, Allen did not apparently participate in any further military activities, and is presumed to have tended his farm, at least until 1762.
Even in the earliest years of the discipline, educational psychologists recognized the limitations of this new approach.
Even more broadly, " Gulag " has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the " meat-grinder ": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths.
Even more unique is that Ireland has been experiencing a baby boom in 2008 and surrounding years, with increasing birth rates and overall fertility rates.
Even though many repeat the cliché that Italy had over fifty governments in its first fifty years of democracy to stigmatise its alleged political instability, Italy's main political problem was actually the opposite: in all the course of the so-called First Republic, the government was in the hands of the Christian Democrats and their allies, since it was unacceptable for a communist party to rule a western country during the Cold war.
Even in recent years, the sale of the whole of or a significant portion of a farm in many European countries required consent from certain heirs, and / or heirs had the intervening right to obtain the land in question with same sales conditions as in the sales agreement in question.
Even though the temple was severely damaged and most of the Jedi perished, it was not completely destroyed, and is visible in the celebrations on Coruscant at the end of Return of the Jedi over twenty years later.
Even in the five years between 2005 and 2009, large quantities of arms and ammunition were delivered to Libya.
Even the Gulf of Mexico did not exist 250 million years ago when there was but one supercontinent, Pangea.
Even as the population of active players on " LambdaMOO " has decreased greatly, the players still remaining are part of a tight community that have known each other for years.
Even the often-advanced suggestion that quatrain I. 35 had successfully prophesied King Henri II's death did not actually appear in print for the first time until 1614, 55 years after the event.

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