Example sentences of "more than half a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 2 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 3 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 4 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 5 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 6 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 7 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 8 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 9 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
| 10 | For more than half a century , in accordance with the collector 's will , the paintings occupied their own suite of first-floor galleries . |
| 11 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 12 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 13 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 14 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 15 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 16 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 17 | More than half a century has passed since he was brought to Swinbrook to escape the horrors of the blitz . |
| 18 | R-A-F Hullavington has been putting into practice its motto — Service To Many — for more than half a century . |
| 19 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 20 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 21 | A CITY-IMPOSED curfew is forcing the Hollywood Palladium to shut down after more than half a century of entertainment ranging from Lawrence Welk to the Rolling Stones , officials said yesterday . |
| 22 | Cellophane , a leading manufacturer of packaging films for more than half a century , launched its quality systems registration effort two years ago , with and in charge . |