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Example sentences for: half-century

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They need a real animating idea that isn't a half-century old.
During the half-century of its existence, Israel has absorbed approximately 2.5 million Jewish immigrants, displaced persons, refugees, and survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
A half-century later, Austen's great-nephew wrote a classically priggish memoir that cast Jane as the perfect Victorian lady, a superwoman of piety and self-denial.
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.