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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a century before" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time period that is one hundred years prior to a specific event or date.
Example: "The invention of the steam engine occurred a century before the industrial revolution transformed society."
Alternatives: "one hundred years earlier" or "a hundred years prior".
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This is a century before Warhol.
The disease, discovered almost a century before, had now become part of the public discourse.
Dagmar Lahlum, his affianced Norwegian love of half a century before, died shortly afterwards, still bereft.
Recent studies of "The Tempest," for instance, have lit upon inspirations from half a century before de Vere's death.
Online shipping or energy arrived a century before Ebay.
The cover boy was an economist who had died a third of a century before, Joseph A. Schumpeter.
Considered a planet for half a century before reclassification as an asteroid.
A century before, the French had won the Battle of Landen on the same ground.
In big cities Community hospitals built a century before are closing.
But, she added, she never knew why Matilda relinquished her interest in them half a century before she died.
Half a century before its time, Pop was born.
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