Quarter-century Sentence Examples

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  • For the first quarter century Watertown ranked next to Boston in population and area.

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  • An official cover-up of those ties for more than a quarter century is finally unraveling.

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  • Antique cars can include steam-powered vehicles, early handmade cars, mass-produced cars like the Ford Model T, and any other automobile that has been around for more than a quarter century.

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  • Indeed, the general interest of her history in the quarter-century after the adoption of the Constitution lies mainly in her connexion with the fortunes of that great political party.

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  • In 1883 she was appointed special agent to allot lands to the Omaha tribes, in 1884 prepared and sent to the New Orleans Exposition an exhibit showing the progress of civilization among the Indians of North America in the quarter-century previous, in 1886 visited the natives of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands on a mission from the commissioner of education, and in 1887 was United States special agent in the distribution of lands among the Winnebagoes and Nez Perces.

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  • Even places that looked new and shiny when I first saw them are now looking a bit grim after a quarter century of neglect.

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