With plants, we have seen that tropical varieties of maize lose their proper character in the course of two or three generations, when cultivated in Europe; and conversely so it is with European varieties cultivated in Brazil.
Money kept for two or three generations transforms a race,--I don't mean merely in manners and hereditary culture, but in blood and bone.
That was shown pretty well in New England two or three generations ago.
Three generations of carrot and parsnip consumers have passed away, yourself among them, and now let your great-grandson look for the baby-elm.
Three generations of Princes experimented with European grapes at the famous Linnaean Botanic Garden, Flushing, Long Island.
Underhill is still living at Croton-on-Hudson, a short distance from Croton Point, the scene of the labors of three generations of the Underhill family.
It will be necessary, therefore, to group together the acts of two or three generations of men of the same name, as the only method of finding our way through the shifting scenes of this stormy period.
Family feuds and household treasons were its natural results for two or three generations; in the midst of these broils two neighbouring families rose into greater importance, the O'Reillys in Cavan and the Maguires in Fermanagh.
But in a succession of civil and religious wars, the axe and the torch have done their work of destruction, so that the age of most of the wood now standing does not date above two or three generations back.
Very many anomalies of structure and diseases,[80] of which instances have been given in the last chapter, have come into a family from one parent, and have reappeared in the progeny after passing over two or three generations.
With plants, we have seen that the American varieties of maize lose their proper character in the course of two or three generations, when cultivated in Europe.
For two or three generations of more or less contact with the outer world and its complications can only modify, not efface, such things.
The Children of the Poets: An Anthology from English and American Writers of Three Generations.
In "Breese," the first volume of Illinois reports, is an opinion by Judge Reynolds which has been the subject of amusing comment by three generations of lawyers.
In the early professional life of Hubbard, Mr. Webster was still at the bar; his speech for the prosecution in the memorable Knapp murder trial has been read with profound interest by three generations of lawyers.
But I do not pin my claim for Borrow upon that fact--the fact of three generations of his mother's family at Dumpling Green--or even on the fact that he was born near East Dereham.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three generations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
