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Example sentences from the Web for half-centuryAfter a half-century of frigid relations, the U.S. and Cuba have agreed to a thaw as the result of 18 months of secret talks. Up To Speed: The Cuba Embargo|Nina Strochlic|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST But music devices sound worse than they did a half-century ago. Five Lessons the Faltering Music Industry Could Learn From TV|Ted Gioia|August 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST I listened to music by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and Horace Silver—each of the tracks more than a half-century old. Jazz (The Music of Coffee and Donuts) Has Respect, But It Needs Love|Ted Gioia|June 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST For more than a half-century before “Stairway to Heaven,” recording artists had been doing this, usually with impunity. Did Led Zeppelin Steal ‘Stairway to Heaven’?|Ted Gioia|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Boko Haram presents a more diabolical danger than anybody could have imagined a half-century ago. We Built a School in Boko Haram’s Heartland|Michael Daly|May 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST Four years more, and the world would reach the half-century mark. A Little Girl of Long Ago|Amanda Millie Douglas It has not grown much since, however, and the old adob buildings have not undergone change in a half-century. America, Volume 6 (of 6)|Joel Cook On July 16, 1901, occurred the most notable political event in a half-century of Danish history. The Governments of Europe|Frederic Austin Ogg At that time New York was hardly more than a big village, such as Boston continued to be for a half-century later. Washington Irving|Henry W. Boynton He lived for a half-century between his two ateliers, on the Place Pigalle, and at Neuilly. Ivory Apes and Peacocks|James Huneker
noun plural -iesa period of 50 yearsduring the past half-century - a score or grouping of 50a half-century of points
- (as modifier)as I near the half-century mark
Words nearby half-centuryhalf-butt, half cadence, half-caste, half-cell, half cent, half-century, half-circle, half-closed, half cock, half-cocked, half-completed Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |