True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the popular imagination, beginning at unthinkable, progressing to absurd, then going from possible but unlikely to probable and likely, before eventually arriving _ round about the time of her birth _ at seemingly inevitable.
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[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the popular imagination, beginning at unthinkable, progressing to absurd, then going from possible but unlikely to probable and likely, before eventually arriving _ round about the time of her birth _ at seemingly inevitable.
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