It shows how Chinese communities developed all over the American West more than a century ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

That might not have been true a half century ago.

这在半个世纪前本无法实现。

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The attack began not all that long ago, really only as late as the seventeenth century.

攻击并未太慢开始，早在十七世纪就开始了。

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This huge home was built more than a century ago near the mountains of North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

He and his brother-in-law,E.J.Cossman, created the Uncle Milton Ant Farm more than a half century ago.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

A half-century ago,for example, producing genetic copies of animals was only a dream of scientists.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Kingsley was fascinated by how the story explores mental health care from half-a-century ago when techniques now viewed as barbaric were commonplace.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Almost a century ago, boll weevils destroyed two-thirds of the cotton crop in this region.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The Navajo have many heroes, including warriors who fought efforts by the U.S.Army to force them from their homes and onto a miserable reservation more than a century ago.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Signs on some of the houses say they were built as long ago as the seventeenth century.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

The Liberal Democratic Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election a few weeks ago, and it is expected to lose its half-century hold on Japanese politics in the August 30 general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

He qualifies exhumations as a humanitarian act that allows families to close what he calls the circle of pain and mourning in which they have been caught for a quarter of a century, and says it was unthinkable as recently as a few years ago that investigations into war crimes would have been allowed in this country.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18