Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece was to suffer a further blow half a century later with the rise of Lucius Cornelius Sulla , Dictator at Rome in 82–1 BC . |
| 2 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 3 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 4 | In the year 2040 our children and our descendants might think it was an ‘ extreme case ’ not to have begun to take action to reduce nitrate pollution half a century earlier . |
| 5 | A variant of the language has evolved in the course of the past half a century or thereabouts , and is used everywhere . |
| 6 | ‘ The newer cohorts entered a politics that was dominated by the class alignment and divided their loyalties along class lines more completely than did their elders , those who had entered politics half a century before . |
| 7 | A walk through the arboretum soon turned thoughts to life as a lumberjill half a century ago . |