The National Coal Board had intended that the tunnel, together with the modern processing facilities, might give Kinneil another century of working life, but the geology didn't work out as the miners had hoped.
Half a century of work can add up to two blinks of an eye.
That is why eminent biologists have been saying there is a century of work ahead.
In spite of a century of work, huge gaps in knowledge remain across the region investigated by the original expedition.
Despite a century of work on this process (called differentiation) and the discovery of many facts about embryos, this basic problem still remains unsolved in animal biology.
Apollonius's treatise on conics in part consolidated more than a century of work before him and in part presented new findings of his own.
"It is an astonishing circumstance that the study of ethics has advanced so little since the 19th century," he wrote, dismissing a century of work by moral philosophers.
On the other hand, to sell that argument successfully is stark proof of the success of the U.D.C.'s century of work: fifty-four per cent of Americans recently polled by Reuters were for keeping the Confederate monuments in place.
Other programs like Teach for America enjoy much more attention, and despite a half century of work, it's hard to define exactly how the Peace Corps has affected both the world and American society.
The whole system is the culmination of a century of work by geniuses and specialists.
