1.   At Antiquarium Print and Map Gallery in Houston, collectors browse through thousands of engravings and other prints, some dating back several centuries.

2.   A six-decade-long border dispute with religious roots that reach back centuries.

3.   Still others reignite periodically, fueled by the combustible oils of ethnic jealousies and religious hatreds reaching back centuries or even millennia.

4.   The history of cathedrals in Catholicism stretches back centuries, to a time when the church was the hub from which cities extended like spokes.

5.   Track to track, Hill celebrates roots that stretch back centuries while evoking a kind of biblical authority.

6.   Wild rumors are common in the Caucasus, and fear of Russia reaches back centuries, but both have reached a new level since this assault began.

7.   Scientists believe further research will show a history of seismic activity in the region dating back centuries.

8.   Some of the words collected go back centuries, including the Old English terms welkin, meaning sky or heaven, and weasand, the gullet.

9.   The northern Caucasus is an intricate web of tribal, ethnic and religious animosities reaching back centuries.

10.   The northern Caucasus is an intricate web of shifting loyalties and borders, of tribal, ethnic and religious animosities reaching back centuries.