Indeed, looking to the known potency of reversion, the wonder is that in any case such changes should become hereditary in a single generation.
But we are "rather inclined to think," though doubtingly and with a disposition to yield to conviction, that it may be for the pecuniary interest of the majority of a single generation in a thickly-peopled country to plunder the rich.
He talks of the greatest happiness of the greatest number: but, when we examine his reasonings, we find that he thinks only of the greatest number of a single generation.
The same qualities that have enabled a single generation of men to develop the resources of a continent, would enable us to destroy more rapidly than we have constructed.
You cannot in a single generation, much less a single decade, change the ideas of centuries.
The contrast of this region between then and now is a marked evidence of the wonderful change that has been made within a single generation.
It has taken less than a single generation to develop the enormous increase of Art which we now see around us in the upper classes.
It is true that, as a nation, we are not artistic, but we might change our character in a single generation.
Another--the most potent cause of all--is the complete revolution of opinion as regards woman's work which has been effected in the course of a single generation.
Again, Abutilon darwinii, which is self-sterile in its native home of Brazil, became moderately self-fertile in a single generation in an English hothouse.
Within a single generation, the industrious and useful feudal administrators had become the well-mannered but quite useless loafers of the court of Versailles.
Darwin tells us that "there is no good evidence that this ever follows in the course of a single generation.
If use-inheritance has not fixed the song of birds, why should we suppose that in a single generation it has transmitted a newly-taught method of walking or trotting?
It transmits new paces in horses in a single generation, but fails to perpetuate the songs of birds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single generation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
