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Example sentences for: half-century

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Chambers, in other words, is one of the most controversial Americans of the last half-century, his life a story rife with histrionic tableaux, profound ideological warfare, and high-level scandal.
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.
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.
Capital of the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago, Anyang has fascinated and rewarded archaeologists for the past half-century.
They need a real animating idea that isn't a half-century old.