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Example sentences for: century

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Specifically, the marriage between macroeconomics and microeconomics--an imperfect but workable union achieved half a century ago, which has allowed economists to combine moderately activist views about monetary policy with otherwise generally free market beliefs--is now being called into question by events.
But the issues that have split the American left in this century were not the expression of narcissistic small differences.
Second floor room 48 is devoted to finds from Akrotiri, a 16th century b.c. settlement on Santorini in the Aegean.
Other critics say the play has "outlived [its] raciness" (David Patrick Stearns, USA Today ). Although La Ronde was banned at the turn of the century, nowadays its account of sexual encounters among various characters (all played by Kidman and her co-star Iain Glen) seems pretty tame.
Generalizations of single linear equations to families of simultaneous multi-variable linear equations stimulated the development of linear algebra and the European re-invention and naming of matrices in the mid-19th century.