Example sentences of "for [det] a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 2 | For the separatists , IME offers escape from the system — political as well as economic — which has imprisoned their nation for half a century . |
| 3 | Their speciality was tunes like In Sans Souci — to remind Twenties Berliners of that nice Sunday afternoon tram ride they could take out to Frederick the Great 's summer palace at Potsdam — a trip no West Berliner has been able to take for half a century . |
| 4 | Without some clear thinking about what Europeans and Americans still need from one another , the transatlantic partnership that has kept Europe safe for half a century will break apart . |
| 5 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |
| 6 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 7 | In Britain in the early days of cinema , prosecutions were brought not for obscenity , but for breaches of licensing conditions , and when certification became the rule in 1923 , legal actions ceased for half a century until sex suddenly became a burning media issue in most Western countries . |
| 8 | At a time when trade unions are at their weakest for half a century , employment is definitely a buyer 's market . |
| 9 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 10 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |
| 11 | He received but scant attention outside his native land for half a century after his death , but then came to be a major force who made a profound impression on both theology and philosophy . |
| 12 | Papez set the agenda for how emotion would be studied for half a century . |
| 13 | The Guardian was controlled by a family trust , dominated by relations of the formidable owner-editor ( and sometime MP ) C P Scott , one of the great Liberal voices of British journalism for half a century into the 1920s . |
| 14 | The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century . |
| 15 | It has been three years since the galleries were last open , but according to Dr Mino , most of the material has been in the basement for half a century . |
| 16 | As Dixie Leonard , Miss M struts her stuff opposite funny man Eddie Sparks , played by James Caan — a dynamic duo destined to entertain homesick American troops for half a century . |
| 17 | The judgment in the case , Re Letters Rogatory out of the First Civil Court of City of Mexico , is badly flawed but was followed almost without exception for half a century . |
| 18 | The basic political conflicts which are likely to decide the fate of the world today have little to do with nation-states , because for half a century there has not existed an international state system of the 19th- century European type , but an essentially bi-polar world organised round two superpowers . |
| 19 | It is clear though that the economic tide was running very much in the party 's direction in 1915–16 ; in 1915 the first industrial tariffs for half a century were imposed , and by a Liberal Chancellor ; in 1916 even the Manchester Chamber of Commerce joined in the demand for industrial protection , causing the resignation of its chairman in protest at the abandonment of a century of belief in free trade . |
| 20 | Secondly , there were the regions of the old industrial periphery — the North , Wales and Scotland — which for half a century had suffered higher than national rates of unemployment . |
| 21 | This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century . |
| 22 | The formation of the Ministry of Transport in 1919 separated the function of traffic and planning in different ministries for half a century . |
| 23 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 24 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
| 25 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 26 | For half a century after Matcham 's retirement his theatres were widely disparaged by architects and others who preferred unbuilt European projects to what the public and theatre profession still prized as ‘ real theatres ’ . |
| 27 | In 1828 he began to write for the fledgling Record newspaper and subsequently became its chief proprietor and the dominant influence on editorial policy for half a century . |
| 28 | Together Horne and Peach were the intellectual leaders of Scottish geology for half a century . |
| 29 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 30 | His system became the standard one for half a century . |