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century

A century is a period of 100 years. My great grandfather came to Canada over a century ago. The telephone was invented in the 19th century. Centuries passed before the slaves were freed.

century

a period of 100 years (= hundred) ten 10s

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In the 6th century, the Anglo-Saxons adopted Roman characters.
We're going to the party in eighteenth century costumes.
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are the only factors that can account for the observed warming over the last century; there are no credible alternative human or natural explanations supported by the observational evidence.
In the eighteenth century, women were treated as second-class citizens.
What does it mean to have an educated mind in the 21st century?
The old church on the hill dates back to the twelfth century.
Parliament has its beginnings in 14th-century England.
Scientific knowledge has greatly advanced since the 16th century.
Some scientists predict that the world oil reserves will be used up within a century.
Football was played in China in the second century.
The story goes back to the sixteenth century.
John Wayne was one of the most popular movie stars of this century.
In Shakespeare's time, in the sixteenth century, tennis was very popular at the English court.
This oil painting dates from the 17th century.
This custom dates back to the 12th century.
This style of hairdressing first appeared in the early 19th century.
This island belonged to France in the 19th century.
This church was built in the 12th century.
Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.
Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.
This church dates from the 12th century.
In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
A century is one hundred years.
In the late eighteenth century, a passport for an American was usually signed by the President of the United States.
The atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.
At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.
It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.
He was born in the 19th century.

Movie subtitles

In the space of just a generation, in the fifth century AD, the Roman Empire in Western Europe essentially fell apart - the aqueducts dried up, the roads overgrown, the circuses deserted.
The ascent of China looks like being the defining political event of the 21 st century.
Built by the Ming dynasty in the early 1 5th century, these awe-inspiring buildings are a reminder of the last time China was a global leader.
Within a century of their construction, the decline of the East and the rise of the West had begun.
By 1 5th-century standards, Nanjing was a pretty pleasant place to live.
The ravages of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that had devastated Europe in the early 1 4th century, had reduced the city's population to around 40,000, less than a 20th the size of Nanjing's.
Nothing remotely so accurate existed in england until the 1 4th century.
More like 1 1th-century China.
As a new century dawned in 1 400, the emperor YongIe had another transport technology at his disposal, which had the potential to make him master, not just of the middle Kingdom, but of the entire global market.
Da Gama made his country's - and his own - fortune by cornering the market in the 1 5th century's favourite food additive spices.
For Europeans, exploration was the Iate-15th-century space race.
By the 1 7th century, the Thames was no longer a provincial backwater.
The City of London Corporation can trace its origins back to the 12th century.
This simply had no counterpart among the fractured and competing states and cities of 1 5th-century Europe.
In the middle of the 19th century we knew that the stars were in fact like the sun.
At the beginning of the 20th century around 1904, he made an important discovery in this area.
The Magic Empire of the Twentieth Century!
Early eighteenth century. I should say about. 1730.
He was born Richmond Reed Carradine, but his name was changed to John Carradine when he went under contract to Twentieth Century Fox in 1935.
The pill of the century.
This is the eighteenth century.
In the history of your own profession, psychiatry, a century ago, hypnosis was looked upon as black magic.
We're living in the 20th century.
I'm going to bring out right under your nose the most incredible crime of the century and you'll never suspect it until it's too late.
He said he was going to do it and he's doing it now, the most stupendous, the most incredible crime of the century, the crowning act of his career.
Longhurst, it's a lovely old house. It's 18th century, isn't it?
It was a secret discovered by Merlin, in the 11th century.
And this is how was started the legend of the Countess of New Orleans. who disappeared a century ago.
Josh Lewis, professor of 18th-century poetry.
Every day a year and every night a century.
A century and a half this dress set me back.
IN A MONTH, I'LL HAVE SERVED 25 YEARS- A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.
Eighteenth century.
Early eighteenth century.
And see all those lovely 14th-century ceilings?
That's a cheerful thought for the new century.
How very impolite of the 20th century to wake up the children.
A new century is a new century.
Once in a century won't matter, surely.
Happy new century!
King Westley, the pill of the century.

News and current affairs

But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
The extraordinary reception of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how keenly the consequences of the collapse of the left have been felt.
It assures the three small Baltic countries that the nightmare of occupation by big neighbors (Hitler's Reich and Stalin's USSR), which they endured for half-a-century -- will not be repeated.
One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter-century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.
A third of Bangladesh will be underwater by the end of this century.
The Maldives and a host of Pacific Island states will disappear: our twenty-first-century Atlantis.
They first look at the different ways that climate change will affect us at mid-century.
Their leaders have consistently pointed out that our current problems are the result of the gases emitted by the industrialized nations over the past century.
So, in order to cut global carbon emissions in half by the middle of the century, we would obviously have to start getting a lot more of our energy from sources that don't emit carbon.
Much of arid sub-Saharan Africa, notably in the Sahel (the region just south of the Sahara desert), has experienced a pronounced drop in rainfall over the past quarter-century.
We are skeptical about unfettered individualism because of our awareness of man's sins, but also because of our profound awareness of the historical defects and aberrations in Germany's 20 th century history.
Fostering economic growth, realizing the Millennium Development Goals, and combating climate change will all depend on creating a new energy system for the twenty-first century and extending it to every person on the planet.
Spent wisely, however, these stimulus packages could trigger far-reaching and transformational trends, setting the stage for a more sustainable, urgently needed Green Economy for the twenty-first century.
In the early nineteenth century, the friezes and sculptures were removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803.
By contrast, the twenty-first century will be informed by the realization that the global ecosystem and its resources, which are indispensable for human survival, are finite, and that this implies an enduring responsibility to preserve what we have.
Many Germans today rightly feel that any system of fiscal transfers will morph into a permanent feeding tube, much the way that northern Italy has been propping up southern Italy for the last century.
This situation is an injustice of vast proportions, reminiscent of - and arguably much worse than - the now-repudiated colonialism of the Western powers in the nineteenth century.
Is Burma, like South Africa under de Klerk, truly poised to emerge from a half-century of self-imposed isolation?
It is easy to predict that Sarajevo will be the place where they will meet to look back on Europe's savage twentieth century.
Hailed in Europe as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, Blinding arrived in America only after a great delay, and never received the attention that it deserved.
China has changed a great deal in the last century, but it has remained the same in one respect: it is still ruled by a religious concept of politics.
After the various revolutions in the early decades of the twentieth century, Confucianism was replaced by a Chinese version of Communism.
Christian fundamentalism in America harks back to nineteenth-century populism and anti-intellectualism.

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