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The war of words is bringing about a religious war that will not die out in a matter of weeks or years but decades if not a century.

But not in a century of Sundays are the CBI and the City going to ally themselves with Mr Corbyn.

Unlike the Twain title, these two novels were first banned not a century ago but earlier this summer, after a local resident called them immoral and said their presence on the school curriculum and in the library was "unacceptable, considering that most of the school board members and administrators claim to be Christian".

Deaths of Supreme Court justices were relatively common in the 19th century, but not a single justice died in office between 1955 and 2005, according to an analysis by Marquette University.

Waugh made his debut at the age of 20 against India in 1985 but did not score a century (100 runs in a single innings) in his first 26 Tests.

But it was not quite a century ago that the composer Edgard Varèse denounced American orchestras as "mausoleums, mortuaries of musical reminiscences".

But it was not until a century later that the WHO introduced multi-drug therapy, a combination of three pills (including thalidomide) that kills Mycobacterium leprae over a period of six months to a year.

The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, purported to give Americans the right to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," but it was not until a century later, with the passage of the act, that the right was enforced, and Southern blacks were finally free to cast a ballot.

Owen speculated that man was probably to blame, but it was not until a century later that Paul Martin, a scientist at the University of Arizona, developed the theory of "Pleistocene overkill", which held that as man spread out from Africa and colonised new continents, he killed off the great beasts he found there.

The pair put on 93, but Lancashire have not recorded a century opening partnership now in 24 games.

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