Fifty years later, that had shrunk to just eight mines employing 33, 000 miners who cut 18 million tonnes.

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Fifty years later, the first children's book of American origin issued from Boston.

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It was only in 1884, almost fifty years later, that a team reached the top of a table mountain.

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Well, fifty years later we are still waiting for the utopia to materialise.

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Fifty years later, the girdle-like Spanx is back thanks to Sara Blakely, a brilliant woman who built a multimillion empire.

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Fifty years later, his two potential successors debated horses, bayonets and whether the United States Navy is smaller than in 1916.

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Some fifty years later, it is well settled that the distribution of investment returns is not normal (in a Gaussian sense).

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Fifty years later, the facility was officially branded as Belfast International Airport.

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Fifty years later, the elderly Irish wife astounds the recently deceased black couple's grandchildren by claiming the house is really hers and they need to move out.

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Fifty years later the European Economic Community has changed out of all recognition, having metamorphosed into the European Union and grown far beyond the original six members.

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Fifty-five years later, it is a Sunday in May again.

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Fifty-four years later, though, "Raisin" seems not so much a here-and-now assault on racism as a history play about black culture in the Eisenhower era, and what hits you hardest is the unflinching truthfulness with which Ms. Hansberry has enacted the hurtful and universal complexities of family life.

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Two and a half years later, Gruno has fifty employees, continues to create more jobs, and he is expanding distribution.

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Fifty years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, it's still thriving.

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