• In the past hundred years, revivals have been exceedingly rare.

    NEWYORKER: Opera on the Barricades

  • Of all the charges being levelled, the social one that the Prime Minister was fraternizing with the wrong sort is at once the most splenetic and the weakest, especially to anyone familiar with the dance that politicians and newspapers have led one another in the past hundred years.

    NEWYORKER: Hack Work

  • Bees could, once again in theory, be treated with antiviral drugs or, alternatively, the virus might burn itself out. (A recent paper co-written by van Engelsdorp shows that unexplained honeybee die-offs have occurred in the U.S. fourteen times in the past hundred years.) Finally, there is the possibility that C.

    NEWYORKER: Stung

  • No one had tried to determine what the full spectrum of life in the ocean looked like a hundred years or five hundred years in the past.

    NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

  • Mr. Campagna and his colleagues argue that at some time in the past few hundred thousand years, during a part of the ice age when much of South America was covered with grasslands, an ancestral species of capuchino expanded rapidly across the continent.

    WSJ: Matt Ridley on the Possible Formation of a Species | Mind & Matter

  • In the millennium year of 2000 Jacques Barzun published his chronicle of ideas in the making of the West over the past five hundred years titled From Dawn To Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'All Art Is Propaganda'

  • In effect, she proceeds as if the past five hundred years were a relatively trivial interval in the annals of human motivation.

    NEWYORKER: Invitation to a Beheading

  • In comparison with the past couple of hundred years, when bond yields were 3-6%, present bond yields look cheap.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • The nature and structure of higher education around the world has changed more in the past sixty years than at any time over the six hundred years since the foundation of the university as we know it.

    UNESCO: Purpose/Objectives of the Chair/UNITWIN Network

  • And it will be a reminder that -- from the trenches of the First World War to the mountains of Afghanistan -- Aussies and Americans have stood together, we have fought together, we have given lives together in every single major conflict of the past hundred years.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks to the Australian Parliament

  • In the past several years, Lang has averaged a hundred and twenty-five concerts a year, and he usually gets fifty thousand dollars for a recital.

    NEWYORKER: The Olympian

  • So I think that having not developed for several hundred years, this growth in the past 20 years isn't enough.

    CNN: Interview with Jiang Wen

  • Over two hundred women have been killed in the past few years.

    BBC

  • He has given large sums of money to L.A. arts institutions about a hundred and forty million dollars in the past thirty years but in return he has expected a degree of fealty that many in the art world find unseemly.

    NEWYORKER: The Art of the Billionaire

  • Yes, over the past two hundred years the U.S. economy has been the most successful ever in the history of the world.

    FORBES: The Arrogance Of The Obama Administration Will Bankrupt Us

  • In the past five years, Shaw has added more than a hundred pounds to the svelte three hundred that he weighed at his first contest.

    NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

  • In the past forty-two years, he said, Africans have received five hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars in aid, yet there has been no appreciable improvement in their living standards.

    NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

  • This is how gold standard systems have always operated, in the U.S., Britain and most other places, over the past two hundred years.

    FORBES: My Thoughts On Lewis Lehrman's Gold Standard

  • New Labour's immaculately crafted 1997 election campaign was built with such care because we had lost four elections in a row, had been in power for only a tiny part of the last one hundred years, and were determined to undo that past.

    BBC: Philip Gould: What 'permanent campaign'?

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