half a century - Sourci
A half century is 50 years. So "more than a half century" is "longer than 50 years". When using these words you need to be careful. Sometimes a century is any period of 100 years. Other times.
A half century is 50 years. So "more than a half century" is "longer than 50 years". When using these words you need to be careful. Sometimes a century is any period of 100 years. Other times.
My guess would be that while speaking off-the-cuff, the speaker tried to say "in the last half-century" and "in a little over half a century" at the same time and that was the result.
For fifty years you also say 1. half a century 2. half of a century 3. a half of a century I understand you say #1, but Im not sure about #2 or #3. Are #2 and #3 good English?
Understanding the Context
Some of them were constructed half a century ago. You need "were" or the sentence will sound as if the buildings were constructing something.
I don't see any problem with "one and a half centuries", Himanshu. It sounds wrong to me to speak of an unbreakable record "of" one and a half centuries.
I would expect either 'the later sixteenth century' or 'the latter part of the sixteenth century'. These are still both vague: I don't know whether it means roughly 1550-1600, or 1560s-1600,.
During is normal in the phrase during the latter half of the twentieth century. The preposition on would not be normal in that phrase: on the latter half of the twentieth century In would.
Key Insights
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