Example sentences for: quarter-century

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

  • Some of the best journalism of the last quarter-century or so belongs to the same genre--Jane Kramer's and John McPhee's and William Finnegan's work for The New Yorker and nearly all the late Anthony Lukas' writing.

  • To commemorate the occasion, the foundation also has sponsored a gushing account of its first quarter-century, The Power of Ideas , by Lee Edwards.

  • For many years quantum leap (or jump ) belonged exclusively to the physicists, but during the past quarter-century or so it has come to be used metaphorically by speakers and writers who like to flaunt that sort of thing.

  • Larkin, to whom "jazz" meant everything you could hear in war-depleted Oxford--basically, Kid Ory and Bix Beiderbecke and King Oliver--was turned loose as contemporary jazz critic for the Daily Telegraph a quarter-century later, having not listened to any jazz in the interim.

  • The best Westchester novel of the past quarter-century, E.L.


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