Your journey with us will take you centuries into the future.
It would take centuries for a normal population to need that much room.
It took centuries for things to come to a head, and no decision could be made.
I don't have that ability, it takes centuries of practice.
It will take centuries for all the magic left in the world to be used up.
After all, your own countries took centuries to do so.
It must have taken centuries for the mountain itself to form.
But it took you centuries; give us a few years.
Look, it took centuries for somebody to figure out just one way, and that was with inside help.
The search might have taken centuries; he did not know or care.