A century ago, this would have been a community of more than 50 people.

We will not be able to solve global warming over the next decades, but only the next half or full century.

The Cold War ended a generation ago the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, are nearly a decade in the past.

More than a century ago, during the first Gilded Age, American politics was sharply polarized as well.

PRAGUE For decades, the idea of the electric car has captured the imaginations of innovators including Henry Ford and Thomas Edison more than a century ago.

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Some observers worry that American society will become sclerotic, like Britain at the peak of its power a century ago.

More than a century later, the game continues.

There are now seven billion people on the planet, compared to just three billion a half century ago.

In short, as was the case more than a half century ago, the region has not spoken with a single voice on these crucial issues.

For about a century they worked in parallel with the Nestorian Christians.

I have watched the problems of international cooperation for a quarter century.

Romania has now been a Member of the United Nations for half a century.

The Internet bubble is the most recent example, but a similar phenomenon occurred with the construction of railways more than a century ago.

With the emergence of truly global world trade over the ensuing century and a half, Asia s economic dominance withered.

For half a century, he reigned with commitment and with wisdom, and he has left a legacy of achievement and of progress.

It cannot hitch a ride on gold, the way America did a century ago.

The Babri Masjid had lain unused for a half century before its destruction, as most of Ayodhya s Muslims had emigrated to Pakistan after Partition.

Modern media help new immigrants to learn more about their new country beforehand than immigrants did a century ago.

Why talk about social economic movements that may be more than a century away?

It lasted for nearly a century, until the early 1980 s.

The links between the settled and unsettled areas started over a century ago.

A century ago, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Angell argued in The Great Illusion that economic security enables military expansion, not vice versa.

In fact, farmers will adapt, especially over the course of a century.

Modern media also help new immigrants to know more about their new country beforehand than immigrants did a century ago.

Both camps have stuck to their positions for at least a quarter century.

These institutions are now a half century old they are not going away.

Nearly a century later, the university was at the centre of a Protestant schism.

For 50 years, Buffett, now 75, has worked at accumulating a vast fortune.

Over 40,000 were installed and still function a quarter of a century later.

When I first began studying China at Harvard a half century ago, China s leaders trumpeted the superiority of their socialist command economy, which controlled every aspect of life.

This pattern began at the start of the 'European project' over half a century ago.

Ahmadinejad is a representative of the younger activists in the anti Shah revolution of a quarter century ago.

In the United States, farmers are experiencing the most severe drought in more than a half century.

The ease of communications and travel today enables expatriates to be engaged with India in a way that was simply not available to the plantation worker in Mauritius or Guyana a century ago.

The world is on the cusp of the most profound shift in global power and influence in a century.

For half a century, Europe s integrationists have sought unquestioning acceptance of their efforts.

A century and a half ago, Japan became the first non Western country to adapt successfully to modern globalization.

If we had a century to change the world s energy system, we could feel reasonably secure.

ISTANBUL Nearly a century ago, in 1919, John Maynard Keynes analyzed the economic consequences of the peace following Germany s defeat in World War I. To be sure, the consequences of Germany s general election on September 22 will not be nearly as momentous.

A century later, according to the 2010 census, 13 of the American population is foreign born.

Not only is it an arithmetically neat 100 years in the past, but it also looked like an attractive parallel.

Maybe the stockholder base was too short term oriented a quarter century ago maybe the original 1.2 year (mean) average holding period was too short.

But, while global economic integration did not regain its 1914 level until half a century later, military globalization grew as economic globalization shrank.

Will this relationship help Pakistan get off the economic rollercoaster it has been riding for the last half century?