| After a half-century of division, the countries of east and west Europe could end their long-standing isolation. |
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| Jane has seen some revolutionary changes in banking during her half-century of working for Barclays. |
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| But love triumphed in the end, and today they mark their half-century with a family meal at the village's Carlton Hotel. |
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| On average over the past half-century, house prices were between four and five times the cost of a family saloon. |
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| Peggy and Alan Glendinning were at the lunch with family and friends reminiscing about their half-century together. |
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| David Reynolds does not seek a radical new reading of the last half-century and there are no major revelations. |
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| The feeling is widespread that the Fifth Republic, as it approaches its half-century, presents a fallen landscape. |
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| After a half-century of exceptional ease and security in the west, we may have to relearn the art of cheerful resignation. |
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| Crowther deserved a half-century, but it was not to be and Warton pressed the panic button too much as there were three run-outs in the innings. |
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| Largely abandoned, it became a blot on the landscape in the village of Wawne, near Beverley, for the next half-century. |
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| They took the score to 135 before Brierley was bowled by Taylor only two short of what would have been his first half-century of the season. |
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| In 2004 American policy makers can look back to the lessons learned in Europe and Asia over the past half-century. |
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| The industry is mature, with a half-century of experience and ever improved engineering behind it. |
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| Over the last half-century, the number of women in the workplace has tripled. |
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| The Scottish experience in the past half-century has been a patchwork of success, spurned opportunities and downright failure. |
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| Crucially, neither side actually used military force directly against the other at any time during the half-century of the Cold War. |
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| In reply, Grange lost three middle order men for ducks, but young opener C R Bilton struck a fluent half-century before retiring hurt. |
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| Boko Haram presents a more diabolical danger than anybody could have imagined a half-century ago. |
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| Democratic candidates in presidential elections over the past half-century have won an average of 46.1 per cent of the popular vote. |
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| He provided a perfect foil for Afridi, and reached a half-century of his own. |
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| Yorkshire then enforced the follow-on and Moss's second half-century, his fourth of the season, helped his side to a draw. |
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| It has been a forgettable half-century, with the lone sparkle being the recent win against Zimbabwe. |
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| For the next half-century, differing interpretations of the treaty caused friction between the two countries. |
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| With three listed companies, the 71-year-old billionaire has been Asia's foremost dealmaker for over a half-century. |
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| As Hannah Arendt assessed it a half-century ago, the decline of nation-state sovereignty was accompanied by the decline of the rights of man. |
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| So when you add his half-century of forestry to that of all the past Wyndham foresters you have an example of living history if ever there was one. |
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| This kind of teen, the one that wedged itself into the space between childhood and adulthood and became a monster, is a creature of the last half-century. |
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| Follifoot then replied with 142-9 with Neil Walker hitting a half-century. |
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| For the past half-century, his St. John's squads have been guided by an odd set of interdicts. |
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| The aging fireboat has responded to thousands of distress calls in its half-century of service. |
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| On the one hand, European integration has given us a half-century of peace and prosperity unprecendented in the history of our continent. |
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| Waugh hit six fours and one six in his innings, knocking up his 38th test half-century in the process. |
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| Rafique then trapped Rogers lbw one shy of a well-deserved half-century with one that turned in to the left-hander. |
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| Officials have targeted 750 acres for revegetation each year for the next half-century. |
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| The US has contributed mightily to the peace of the world over the past half-century. |
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| Over the past half-century the church has spread its strongly salvationist message across the globe and is now established in five continents. |
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| The terminal date of 1914 offers a retrospective view of developments during the previous half-century. |
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| There's the nagging sectionalism, the North-South bitterness that still raged a half-century after the Civil War and beyond. |
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| It went on dropping rapidly for the next half-century, until the mortality rate had declined more than a thousandfold. |
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| Cumberland lost their fourth wicket at 146 when Robert Mason was bowled for 53, having hit his first half-century for the county. |
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| He cracked seven fours and two sixes, reaching his half-century off 35 balls. |
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| Butcher kept alive his team's hopes of squaring the three-match series with his second consecutive half-century. |
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| His 74 included 11 fours, and involved a half-century stand with Ryan McLaren. |
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| Every California governor in the past half-century has been either a veteran state officeholder or a celebrity. |
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| Former Oxford blue Will made a century and Lawrence made an unbeaten half-century. |
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| Still, the sport of climbing, like river running, has evolved dramatically in the past half-century. |
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| With little or no maintenance in a half-century, the structures are collapsing. |
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| A half-century ago, Southern Democrats campaigned by opposing color-blind laws, stirring up racial fears, and silencing those who opposed them. |
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| The work amply illustrates the interesting fact that the space age is moving toward the half-century mark, meaning that some perspective is now being obtained. |
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| That imbalance has grown over the past half-century, according to Ross, the Samford University professor. |
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| The eradication of poverty was a top priority for his Government, which had provided more foreign assistance in the past eight years than at any time over the previous half-century. |
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| She complied, though heartbroken, and in spite of the insistence of her teacher William Alwyn who, some half-century later, became the dedicatee of her Wind Quintet. |
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| No shot seemed to take effort once he'd passed fifty and he brought up three figures with a glide to third man, his second half-century taking 68 balls. |
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| After a half-century of frigid relations, the U.S. and Cuba have agreed to a thaw as the result of 18 months of secret talks. |
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| For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. |
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| This idea that the state only advances and never retreats is contradicted by the record of the past half-century. |
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| Plimpton was the writer who was briefly allowed to play quarterback in a Detroit Lions preseason game a half-century ago. |
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| As in Updike's Rabbit novels, Villages provides, on a smaller scale, a breezy anatomization of American manners and mores over the last half-century. |
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| But Durham, who had already been playing in South Africa for a week, got off to a flier as the pitch eased and a half-century from Michael Gough put them in charge. |
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| But music devices sound worse than they did a half-century ago. |
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| The commemorators have every right to blend somber and light as they mark a half-century of progress. |
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| In addition, corporate tax rates are at their lowest level in a half-century, making them low-hanging fruit as a potential revenue source. |
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| The lock systems have experienced minimal physical change over the past half-century. |
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| Earlier on Wednesday the Farc energetically defended the negotiations aimed at ending a half-century insurgency. |
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| In this search, no source can be ruled out, as the Supreme Court did to a certain extent in the first half-century of its existence. |
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| It was here, some half-century ago, that he first experimented with the aqualung, and since then many have followed in his wake to experience their first breath under water. |
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| Two television series, a half-century apart. |
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| A half-century has passed but the families of our fallen comrades still shed tears in remembrance of those loved ones who did not return. |
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| Well, not every Hollywood couple can boast of a half-century of wedded bliss. |
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| It contains his personal recollections of some of the exciting developments in transition metal organometallic chemistry over the last half-century to which he contributed. |
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| During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism. |
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| On the wall behind him hangs an oversize portrait of Michel Nielly, who a half-century ago established it as a beachhead for the Dominican order. |
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| One more time, for the more than half-century that he has ruled with an iron fist over his grandfather's heritage, like the dragon of the Ring over the Nibelung's gold. |
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| Although physicists have struggled in vain for over a half-century to encompass all natural forces within a unified theory, chemical physicist Myron W. Evans has now succeeded. |
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| For the past half-century or more, UK governments of all political shades have sought to annexe the enormous power of volunteering for a variety of ends – not always successfully. |
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| For example, the family has greatly altered in the last half-century, so that school is the only well-ordered place with which many children are familiar. |
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| The past half-century shows that the armies of the great imperialist powers of Europe, in alliance or each on its own hunting ground, were not there to defend the people, but to carry on wars of pillage. |
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| But Smith passed the patience test, and it was not until he was past his half-century that he began to milk runs in the morning off Graeme Swann. |
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| The British-born Mr. Doonan has been whiffing the intoxicating vapors of style and camp for a half-century, and has been seriously addicted at least since the mid-1970s, when he worked on Savile Row at a place called Nutters. |
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| Ballance is one of England's form batsmen after he followed his 79 in the series opener in Melbourne with another half-century in the morale-booting 172-run win over a Prime Minister's XI on Tuesday. |
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| That brings up Bell's half-century in very unconventional cicrumstances. |
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| While only some of these narratives show all the benefits of a half-century of hindsight, each provides some nugget that increases our understanding of the wide variety of personal experiences of the Second World War. |
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| His multifold career — as experimental film and video maker, composer, musician and sound artist — still looks radical and prescient a half-century after it began. |
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| Apartheid survived for almost a half-century, a system based on the view that the only thing blacks were good for was to work as hewers of wood and drawers of water. |
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| From 10 million barrels per day in 1950, global consumption soared to 77 million in 2000, a half-century bacchanalia of fossil fuel burning. |
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| This balancing act has become more complicated with the medicalization of life and the professionalization of care that has characterized this last half-century. |
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| The culmination of a half-century of truck know-how and steady advances in technology, the FJ Cruiser is as rough and ready as its legendary namesake, the FJ40 Landcruiser, but with some tricks all its own. |
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| Since the dawn of the Space Age a half-century ago, the weight of rocket fuel needed to lift a payload into or beyond Earth orbit has been a major limitation on space flight. |
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| Hodge followed his partner to his half-century by pushing McGrath for two and followed by hoisting successive long hops over the leg-side boundary. |
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| But Oram stood firms to patiently bring up his half-century before smashing 25 from the final over to help New Zealand post a defendable 212 for nine. |
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| Overambitious stroke play contributed to three of the wickets, Northumberland rallying to post a total of 199-9, Gareth Breese scoring a half-century. |
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| Instead, once the resistance of a determined half-century from Martin van Jaarsveld was broken Notts hurried through the Kent order with more than 18 overs to spare. |
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| More than a half-century after it was written, The Classical Trivium remains a superb lens through which to examine the traditions of Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe. |
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