Both, however, have service lives of over a half-century!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Hart: Puzzling Questions] Reference

Even a half-century later, their cries for help are searing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tortured Legacy] Reference

That was the mental mindset for the, oh, for the past half-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do You See What I See? A Scientist's Journey Into 3-D] Reference

Specifically I mean the impending water crisis of the next half-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Bill Gates] Reference

And why did it take a half-century for major news organizations to "discover" a massacre?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle For the Peninsula] Reference

During their half-century in business the Chung family had known only aggressive expansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tycoon In Winter] Reference

So reaching the half-century mark doesn't necessarily mean you should party like a rock star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocktails and Consequences] Reference

In a half-century of New York Jets history, there have been eras transcendent and tumultuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jets Are Fortunate T.O. Was a No-Go] Reference

I nested deep in my chair and allowed memories of more than half-century before to live as new.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bicycle Mechanic] Reference

Sure, George Romney was an iconic figure in Michigan — but that was nearly a half-century ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitt vs. Michigan] Reference

It was the most massive ice island to break away in the Arctic in a half-century of observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Change Predictions Supported By Summer Of Fires, Floods And Heat Waves: IPCC] Reference

As indicated in the 1950 article, America has had a shortage of nurses for a half-century or more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Money: Maybe it's job retraining that needs to be retooled] Reference

Over the past half-century, the price of a generally desultory American policy has been compounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [How We Got to This Point] Reference

It took the world's astronomers another half-century to figure out exactly what they all were seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: From Galileo to Cassini -- 400 Years of Saturn's Rings] Reference

In the past half-century, dozens of once-shy species have learned that city dwellers mean them no harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Jungles] Reference

Mahan's heirs have made the U.S. Navy the dominant sea power in the world for more than a half-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea Power] Reference

First, the realignment of the political parties over the past half-century has polarized American politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey R. Stone: Republican Obstructionism on Judges] Reference

For the first time in the Union's half-century history, polls show that fewer than half now view it favorably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kick The Can, Please!] Reference

It is hard to understate how dramatically the sources of business wealth have shifted in the past half-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [As the green economy grows, the 'dirty rich' are fading away] Reference

It's difficult to watch, given the degree to which the climate seems similar to what it was a half-century ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Juicy “Raisin”] Reference

We'll never know, but what we do know is that a half-century of the embargo hasn't brought down Castro's government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Barbara Lee: Mr. President: Lift the Travel Ban] Reference

The Taliban will continue fighting for the next half-century, he predicts, until Islamic law returns to Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violence Drains Hope From Afghans In Kandahar] Reference

Capitol more than a half-century ago, died Aug. 1 at a hospital in San Juan of complications from respiratory disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lolita Lebron, jailed for gun attack at U.S. Capitol in 1954, dies at 90] Reference

In the last half-century U.S. higher education attracted the most talented scholars and students from here and abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Goal For Higher Education] Reference

So for the first half-century of the Navy's existence, its officers studied their profession in "the school of the ship.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of William Leeman's Naval Academy history, "The Long Road to Annapolis"] Reference

Most modern dance for the past half-century has been influenced, to one degree or another, by Cunningham and his progeny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miles Mogulescu: The Most Culturally Radical Show on TV (and Sometimes One of the Cheesiest) is on Fox] Reference

Dickey: I do think fossil fuels will continue to be the world's primary source of energy for at least the next half-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Online Forum: Editors on the Future of Energy] Reference

Others suggest that Japan's half-century military reliance on the United States created a culture of dependency and timidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Japan Could Save the World] Reference

For all the statistical permutations, analyzing the makeup of the American electorate for the past half-century is fairly simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’re Heading Left Once Again] Reference

He ruled for a half-century marked by prosperity and religious freedom - in an era when forced conversion was virtually unheard of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Smucker: GOP Charge: Ground Zero Mosque is bin Laden's Trojan Horse] Reference

In the discourse between Lutheran and Catholic ecumenists over the past half-century, however, a new picture of Luther has emerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles in the Footsteps of Martin Luther] Reference

The Big Ten has become a football fraud, a diminished conference that has been riding a reputation established a half-century ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Not-So-Big Ten] Reference

We see such a seismic shift in the U.S. health insurance industry, which faces the most sweeping changes in its half-century history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New IT Landscape For Health Insurers] Reference

He quickly plundered a couple of boundaries while Allenby reached his half-century off 91 balls as Glamorgan closed on 156-8, 173 ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Allenby key to Glamorgan's hopes of double over Middlesex] Reference

Mets fans, of course, at least the older ones, are still angry about the Dodgers and/or Giants leaving town more than a half-century ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger I. Abrams: Seasonal Sports Transitions] Reference

Keedy batted for 19 overs in extending his third-wicket stand with Mark Chilton to 56, and Chilton grafted on to his second half-century of the match.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Di Venuto the key as Durham seek to reignite treble bid] Reference

The Liberal Democratic Party, paralyzed by internal rivalries and declining popularity, seems likely to lose power for the first time in a half-century in upcoming elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Paul Krugman Were Japanese] Reference