How To Use Half-century In A Sentence
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But they can have had little inkling of the social revolution or the economic upheavals that the next half-century had in store.
Times, Sunday Times
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It locks in virtually all the improvements in longevity over the past half-century as additional time in retirement.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it.
Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
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Butcher kept alive his team's hopes of squaring the three-match series with his second consecutive half-century.
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That proportion has doubled in the past half-century.
Times, Sunday Times
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'butterfingers' as he brought up an unbeaten half-century to guide his team out of early trouble on the opening day of the third Test at Bellerive Oval.
Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines
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A half-century ago, long before the word "bridezilla" was part of our lexicon, saleswomen at Becker's Bridal had a secret language they used to cope with unpleasant brides.
One 'Magic Room' That Links Generations of Brides
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(Skip to the 5: 00 mark of this clip and you can see the scandalously underrated Jules Munshin satirize the Food Network, still a half-century in the future.)
Archive 2008-03-01
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One of the key insights of the last half-century is that by these measures, complexity arises remarkably quickly.
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The demographics of our population have changed dramatically over the past half-century, and particularly so over the last decade.
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A half-century later, it standsas a landmark of peaceful cooperation, demilitarization, and shared governanceamong the 47 countries that have signed.
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Peggy and Alan Glendinning were at the lunch with family and friends reminiscing about their half-century together.
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It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century.
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This so-called economic substance doctrine has been used by the federal courts for a half-century to strike down complex and creative instances of self-dealing - such as intracompany stock transfers intended to generate tax-reducing losses - that have no business purpose beyond avoiding the taxman.
Top Stories from CQ
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Crowther deserved a half-century, but it was not to be and Warton pressed the panic button too much as there were three run-outs in the innings.
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During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism.
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Our country has become more diverse over the past half-century, and so have evangelical churches.
Christianity Today
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His fellow opener, Mark Bentley, of Netherton, completed a half-century before being bowled by Hamed Khan for 58.
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There's the nagging sectionalism, the North-South bitterness that still raged a half-century after the Civil War and beyond.
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He scored a half-century in Cardiff but it is difficult to see how he can sustain a longterm international career against the best bowling.
The Sun
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I could not be more delighted that he scored his first Test half-century yesterday.
The Sun
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Arguably, there are more ideological differences within the party than with its rival, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which governed Japan for most of the half-century to 2009.
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The rate of the westward shift of the centre of population slowed by about one-half in the next half-century. but it continued to edge across Indiana and, by 1950, on to Olney, Illinois.
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If the world economy continued to expand at 3 per cent annually, the output of goods and services would increase fourfold over the next half-century, reaching $172 trillion.
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Step back another half-century and you find a different scene: a highly transient place inhabited by up to 150,000 Jewish immigrants, with poverty rife among cockneys.
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Still, the sport of climbing, like river running, has evolved dramatically in the past half-century.
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And how has that balance changed in the intervening half-century?
Times, Sunday Times
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As in Updike's Rabbit novels, Villages provides, on a smaller scale, a breezy anatomization of American manners and mores over the last half-century.
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The US has contributed mightily to the peace of the world over the past half-century.
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Likewise, despite the metric unit of packaging being in force for the last half-century, some companies use metric-convertibles of old foot-pound-second units to pack medicines.
The Hindu - Front Page
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With her bubbly and energetic personality, Heldt shows all the enthusiasm for hairstyling today that you would imagine at the height of her career a half-century ago.
The Woman Behind The Beehive
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So when you add his half-century of forestry to that of all the past Wyndham foresters you have an example of living history if ever there was one.
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This kind of teen, the one that wedged itself into the space between childhood and adulthood and became a monster, is a creature of the last half-century.
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And how has that balance changed in the intervening half-century?
Times, Sunday Times
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This half-century was the formative period for national kingship.
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African American political and civic leaders say that equating a challenge to a judge's nomination with the kidnappings, atrocities and murders that black Americans faced during more than a half-century of lynchings is inappropriate.
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Crucially, neither side actually used military force directly against the other at any time during the half-century of the Cold War.
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No shot seemed to take effort once he'd passed fifty and he brought up three figures with a glide to third man, his second half-century taking 68 balls.
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It has been a forgettable half-century, with the lone sparkle being the recent win against Zimbabwe.
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The earliest citation of hotspur was in a chronicle a half-century later: “Herry Percy the yonger, whom the Scottis clepid Herry Hatspore.”
No Uncertain Terms
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A half-century later, the trial is a landmark example of freedom of speech, and Howl is one of the most famous poems of all time.
Kristin McCracken: Film & Literature: HOWL
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Protons, neutrons, pions, and the elaborate array of other hadrons discovered in the last half-century are thought to be understood in terms of their constituent quarks and gluons.
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The industry is mature, with a half-century of experience and ever improved engineering behind it.
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Mr Okada stressed the importance of Japan's half-century alliance with the US and his willingness to deepen the relationship.
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One of the most striking discoveries made about the earth in the past half-century is that it seems to have a natural thermostat.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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Jane has seen some revolutionary changes in banking during her half-century of working for Barclays.
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More imporantly from a citizen perspective: has anyone noted that Senate candidate Warner was the key actor in diluting one of the most significant environemntal laws of the last half-century, the limits on federallly funded roads through public parklands?
Waldo Jaquith - VQR nominated for two Ellies.
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In reply, Grange lost three middle order men for ducks, but young opener C R Bilton struck a fluent half-century before retiring hurt.
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We can see the extent to which women have become free for new responsibilities by the fact that the number of women in gainful occupations in Canada multiplied almost five times in the half-century from 1901 to 1951.
Christmas Meeting
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With three listed companies, the 71-year-old billionaire has been Asia's foremost dealmaker for over a half-century.
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It contains his personal recollections of some of the exciting developments in transition metal organometallic chemistry over the last half-century to which he contributed.
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Since the nominees themselves aren't supposed to know, the nominators aren't supposed to tell, and the Nobel Foundation is keeping stumm for the next half-century, the claim is a meaningless credential.
Nobel gas
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A half-century ago, Southern Democrats campaigned by opposing color-blind laws, stirring up racial fears, and silencing those who opposed them.
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He provided a perfect foil for Afridi, and reached a half-century of his own.
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There were smaller numbers of bisque dolls made in other countries, including the United States, but most notably France, which had supported a luxury doll industry over the previous half-century.
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A closer look will show that label bloodline filled with more industry queens, princesses, and duchesses than any other, and a proven half-century of lady-centric executive leadership in Clive, Tommy, Donnie and Barry.
Jeffrey Rabhan: Why Sony Music Should Only Release Solo Female Artists
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The study's lead authors, World Bank economists Indermit Gill and Martin Raiser, conclude that the Continent's basic growth model of the last half-century is seriously amiss, and that it will take more than well-meaning summitry to fix it.
Why Europe Isn't Growing
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These people are the human "canaries" of riverine health; along with millions of dam-affected people before them, they have paid the price for a half-century of uncontrolled dam building with their farmlands, their fisheries, their forests and other natural riches that dams destroy.
Lori Pottinger: River Defenders Gather in Mexico to Warn of Global Crisis
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He cracked seven fours and two sixes, reaching his half-century off 35 balls.
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For a half-century, some version of this integrated vision, with its logical progression and simple concinnity - shuttle to station, station to ship, and thence to the planets!
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Guptill made the most of a flat pitch to hit 109, while captain Ross Taylor made an unbeaten half-century as the Black Caps closed day one on 3-275.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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As architects, planners, and engineers, we have a civic obligation to reinvolve ourselves in the design of infrastructure initiatives, just as we did more than a half-century ago.
Archpaper.com - News Channel
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Inside, little can have changed in the past half-century.
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After a half-century of division, the countries of east and west Europe could end their long-standing isolation.
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The left-hander had reached a half-century with six fours.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 2004 American policy makers can look back to the lessons learned in Europe and Asia over the past half-century.
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We wanted compensation for what a half-century in refugee camps has done to their lives.
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His 74 included 11 fours, and involved a half-century stand with Ryan McLaren.
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With little or no maintenance in a half-century, the structures are collapsing.
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After a half-century of exceptional ease and security in the west, we may have to relearn the art of cheerful resignation.
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Of all the inconsequential rubbish dreamt up by television executives over the past half-century, this overblown and overrated junket must rank as one of the biggest misuses of licence-payers' money.
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It was here, some half-century ago, that he first experimented with the aqualung, and since then many have followed in his wake to experience their first breath under water.
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The terminal date of 1914 offers a retrospective view of developments during the previous half-century.
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After a failed attempt to change its name in 2000, the almost half-century-old Northside Businessmen's Club could become the gender-neutral Northside Business Leaders.
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The reasoning was logical enough, given that Mr. Johnson had just scored a morale-boosting half-century, which helped lift his team to a competitive 280, but it was not until his second spell when the lacquer was removed from the ball that he began to find his range.
Australia Hoping to Stem
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There have been many changes over the past half-century.
Times, Sunday Times
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It went on dropping rapidly for the next half-century, until the mortality rate had declined more than a thousandfold.
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The Scottish experience in the past half-century has been a patchwork of success, spurned opportunities and downright failure.
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In this case, it's a defiantly spare, beautifully quiet show of 19 of the approximately 30 wood sculptures that the American abstractionist Ellsworth Kelly b. 1923—better known for his bright color-panel paintings—has made over the past half-century.
Beautiful, Quiet and Spare
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But in the half-century that had passed since Robespierre's Jacobins waged their life and death struggle against feudal reaction, the economic structure and social physiognomy of Europe had changed.
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We wanted compensation for what a half-century in refugee camps has done to their lives.
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The aging fireboat has responded to thousands of distress calls in its half-century of service.
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She complied, though heartbroken, and in spite of the insistence of her teacher William Alwyn who, some half-century later, became the dedicatee of her Wind Quintet.
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The feeling is widespread that the Fifth Republic, as it approaches its half-century, presents a fallen landscape.
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Over the past half-century the church has spread its strongly salvationist message across the globe and is now established in five continents.
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Shipley still has the pale turquoise eyes and easy grin he had as a young man, and it sometimes startles him to realize that those backcountry rambles are a half-century in the past.
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He's made many a return to reggae in his nearly half-century career, though, and his current status as percussionist in both David Hillyard's Rocksteady 7 and Dub is a Weapon show his binghi-based chops to be a mighty as ever.
Jammin Reggae Archives
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David Reynolds does not seek a radical new reading of the last half-century and there are no major revelations.
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In the early 19th century, other methods of cooling were explored, and several evaporative refrigerators were patented, although it was another half-century before they made an impact on the food industry.
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Open economies are the ones that have flourished in the past half-century.
Times, Sunday Times
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It went on dropping rapidly for the next half-century, until the mortality rate had declined more than a thousandfold.
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But love triumphed in the end, and today they mark their half-century with a family meal at the village's Carlton Hotel.
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Now, almost a half-century after the publication of "Invitation to an Inquest" we have "Final Verdict," again revisiting the Rosenberg case.
The Defense
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Follifoot then replied with 142-9 with Neil Walker hitting a half-century.
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For the past half-century, his St. John's squads have been guided by an odd set of interdicts.
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US health spending didn't grow much in 2009, reports Amy Goldstein: The nation's expenditures on health care in 2009 grew by 4 percent, the smallest increase in at least a half-century, according to new federal figures that suggest Americans stinted on medical services as they lost jobs and insurance in the recent recession.
Wonkbook: Boehner's new rules; Dems' release filibuster reform proposal
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Yet instead of sensibly contrasting two irreconcilable ends of a half-century, half a world apart, Mr. Spender laments of the poets surviving Vietnam (as opposed to the survivors of Verdun) that only "one or two
is an exception in having ambitions which derive from an idea of poetry based on past examples
which exercise claims on the future.
Cultural Barbarians?
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It locks in virtually all the improvements in longevity over the past half-century as additional time in retirement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guptill made the most of a flat pitch to hit 109, while captain Ross Taylor made an unbeaten half-century as the Black Caps closed day one on 3-275.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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On average over the past half-century, house prices were between four and five times the cost of a family saloon.
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Cumberland lost their fourth wicket at 146 when Robert Mason was bowled for 53, having hit his first half-century for the county.
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Then suddenly, in the half-century between 1880 and 1930, it ousted the steam-engine and took over traction, it ousted every other form of household heating, abolished distance with the perfected wireless telephone and the telephotograph ....
The World Set Free
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They include Fama, one of the most influential financial economists of the past half-century, and his University of Chicago colleague John Cochrane, a prominent macroeconomist.
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Yorkshire then enforced the follow-on and Moss's second half-century, his fourth of the season, helped his side to a draw.
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Largely abandoned, it became a blot on the landscape in the village of Wawne, near Beverley, for the next half-century.
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But with the sevenfold expansion in the world economy over the last half-century, failing to address these market shortcomings and the economic distortions they create will lead to economic decline.
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At the beginning of that half-century, intrepid aviators had hopped from field to field, begoggled and windswept on open chairs; at its end, grandmothers had slumbered peacefully between continents at a thousand kilometres an hour.
2061 Odyssey Three
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McGrath's defences seem unbreachable at the moment and hot on his unbeaten 173 and 65 against Worcestershire, he completed yet another half-century before being run out for 68 by Gary Pratt's direct hit.
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And yet you, Mr. President, more than a half-century later, authorized subjecting prisoners to this technique for up to 72 hours, or 40 hours if combined with standing in handcuff restraints.
Dear President Bush,
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For the next half-century, differing interpretations of the treaty caused friction between the two countries.
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Only a few years ago, in the midst of a national real estate boom, Paterson and myriad other American communities embraced shopping malls and spreads of new condominiums as portals to economic growth, hoping that construction jobs and retail could transcend the post-industrial urban decay that had gripped them for a half-century.
At Mall Of Big Dreams, Few Shoppers
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The U.S. Weather Bureau had banned the word tornado from its forecasts and warnings a half-century earlier—no need to frighten people.
Storm Warning
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In four innings, he has had three single-figure scores, and one half-century.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was as if he had returned to the pavilion to celebrate with lemon barley water after a half-century.
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Over the last half-century, the number of women in the workplace has tripled.
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But Durham, who had already been playing in South Africa for a week, got off to a flier as the pitch eased and a half-century from Michael Gough put them in charge.
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In a speech last month at the Chatham House think tank, Clegg made a case for the need for Britain to "repatriate" its foreign policy after a half-century of what he called the "default Atlanticism" of a succession of Labor and Conservative governments.
CNSNews.com Headlines
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As the painter and poet, David Jones, argued a half-century ago, art reminds us in a gratuitous way — that is, by way of a kind of grace that signifies, or speaks, to us — of the rich, polysemantic layering of signs that constitutes the world itself.
Things Mean Things
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They took the score to 135 before Brierley was bowled by Taylor only two short of what would have been his first half-century of the season.
