Sentence examples for centenary for from inspiring English sources
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You might use the phrase "celebrating a centenary" in written English. For example: "The town is celebrating a centenary this year marking the anniversary of its founding in 1821."
If the Somme is always the focus of British memory in this centenary, for France – and to some extent also for Germany – that role is occupied by Verdun.
So what will Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic do for a really significant occasion: the Leonard Bernstein centenary, for example, in 2018?
I'd read up on him, Shackleton, the history, the heroic age, and I don't use the word lightly, I promise, but I felt privileged to be down there for the centenary for Amundsen's reaching the south pole.
Joan Rigol, president of the committee charged with finishing the building by Antoni Gaudí, said it should be finished in time for the centenary for the architect's death – or, if not, two years later.
Planned, no doubt, with a view to next year's centenary of the last tsar's abdication – and the far more problematical centenary, for today's Russia, of the Bolshevik revolution that followed – its publication also coincides with the BBC's much-praised, much-debated, dramatisation of War and Peace, as well as Lucy Worsley's series, Empire of the Tsars.
Elsewhere, a year of happenings at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (01494 892192; roalddahl.com/museum; admission £6.60) in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, mark his centenary; for Roald Dahl Day (the weekend of 17-18 September), Great Missenden will be transformed into the Village of the Unexpected.
Well, I guess centenaries for industries that continue to thrive and innovate are rare.
Northern Ireland Minister Hugo Swire warned about the possibility of dissident groups using upcoming centenaries for their own purposes.
Mr Swire also warned that there was a possibility that dissident groups could use upcoming centenaries for their own purposes.
His intricate painting "Humanity Untitled", is the official image for the centenary of the Nobel Prize for Peace and portrays Henry Dunant, who, with Frédéric Passy, received the first Nobel Prize in 1901.
He maintained a loose connection with cricket; he appeared at a birthday dinner for Pelham Warner, at a centenary celebration for the Free Foresters Cricket Club and in a radio broadcast for Jack Hobbs's 80th birthday.
