century
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Both paintings had been a part of the hotel for more than a century.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
For nearly a quarter of a century, Nigel James has been coaching young footballers in south-west London.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Over the past century, scientists have proposed numerous hypotheses, most of them centered on chemical evolution occurring either on Earth or in space.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Unassuming on its surface, that negative is at once a sophisticated industrial product and the source of nearly a century of dreams, joy, terror, fantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Toward the end of the twentieth century, scientists will invent brain scanners that can "image" the electrical and chemical activity inside a living brain.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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