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For nearly a quarter of a century, Nigel James has been coaching young footballers in south-west London.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The CEO has worked for Nestlé for about a quarter of a century, with stints in Honduras and Mexico and a spell running Nespresso, a brand sold in 81 countries.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
But the quality falls off dramatically after that, with Scotland and Haiti both playing in a World Cup for the first time this century.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
The Kentucky Derby has come to Louisville on the first Saturday of May for nearly a century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
By the middle of the nineteenth century, a popular parlor game is "reading" one's character by feeling the skull for bumps and dips and then matching them to a head chart such as this one.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Vocabulary lists containing century
Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
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