But Fr Williams wants to see it restored to how it may have looked half a millennium ago.

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"Look at the high-end watch: totally mechanical, same as it was more than half a millennium ago, " Mr. Mille continues.

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When Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type a half-millennium ago, he also gave us immovable text.

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Hadley sees a huge change from two years ago when the Blues were bullied off the Millennium Stadium turf by the Ospreys in an EDF Cup semi-final.

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Ten years ago, world leaders adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals, including a pledge to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty.

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Those wages have indeed risen by 16% a year for a decade: and two years ago we could have said by 14% since the millennium.

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