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Example sentences for: half-century

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Capital of the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago, Anyang has fascinated and rewarded archaeologists for the past half-century.
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.
May the next half-century speak better of us.
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.
USAT , the WP and NYT report that Clinton, in his speech in New York City to the Council on Foreign Relations, called the current situation "the biggest financial challenge facing the world in a half-century."