Century in sentence

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Over the last half a century, pioneers of transplantation have tried hard to make it happen, but with limited to no success.

And then in the 20th century a lot of things changed.

The result was that lifespans extended from about 45 at the start of the century to almost double that today.

The 20th century was this time of huge optimism about what science could offer, but with all of the focus on life, death was forgotten, even as our approach to death changed dramatically.

Because China is today not just woken up, China has stood up and China is on the march, and the question for us all is where will China go and how do we engage this giant of the 21st century?

So in short, the question we have tonight is, how do we understand this mega-change, which I believe to be the biggest change for the first half of the 21st century?

In fact, half a century of anti-poverty programs have left more poor people in slavery than in any other time in human history.

But, this is not the beginning of the 20th century.

In this century, scientists may learn to awaken the power of artificial intelligence.

This to me looks like a thing that is well worth doing and I can imagine that if things turn out okay, that people a million years from now look back at this century and it might well be that they say that the one thing we did that really mattered was to get this thing right.

We showed each other our kids' pictures, and we've been happily married for a third of a century now.

And this is actually how astronomers have studied objects in the heavens, literally, for over a century.

You can call it racism or colonialism, but the labels don't matter as much as the fact that over the last century, Native American rights and culture were taken from them.

An effective vaccine against it has been available for more than half a century, but many of the kids involved in the Disneyland outbreak had not been vaccinated because their parents were afraid of something allegedly even worse: autism.

For most of the 20th century, autism was considered an incredibly rare condition.

For most of the 20th century, clinicians told one story about what autism is and how it was discovered, but that story turned out to be wrong, and the consequences of it are having a devastating impact on global public health.

I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.

There were about 12.5 million people sold from Africa into slavery in the New World back in the 19th century and the 18th century.

It's a century since we made this really fateful decision to take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop.

Now, we have a story about what would happen that we've been told for a century.

Professor Alexander explained to me, the idea of addiction we've all got in our heads, that story, comes partly from a series of experiments that were done earlier in the 20th century.

Quick aside: It's worth noting that the first big war of the twentieth century began with an act of terrorism.

And then the big political and economic question of the 21st century will be, "What do we need humans for?", or at least, "What do we need so many humans for?"

In our current population, HeForShe is about moving the 3.2 billion men, one man at a time, across that line, so that ultimately, men can stand alongside women and be on the right side of history, making gender equality a reality in the 21st century.

This is a painting from the 16th century from Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Physicists and chemists have had nearly a century of trying to get used to this weirdness.

This has been known for half a century.

It's no exaggeration to say that the Southern Hemisphere is going to be the future of astronomy for the 21st century.

We've learned in the 20th century that the universe is expanding and that our own solar system is not at the center of that expansion.

Chern was one of the great mathematicians of the century.

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