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Example sentences for: half-century

How can you use “half-century” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

May the next half-century speak better of us.
Hall said that Britain has enjoyed "a half-century of pre-eminence in this field of endeavor" and that this could now be destroyed.
The show, an instructive panorama of shifting taste in the last half-century seen through the innovative work of designers from England, Japan, Italy, and America interspersed with French examples, demonstrates how changing perceptions of high fashion have slowly altered its character.
They need a real animating idea that isn't a half-century old.
A half-century ago, a president could drive through city streets in a normal car with a few bodyguards, and anyone could stroll up to the front door of the White House.