Sentence examples for centuries milestone from inspiring English sources

When he retired in 1983 with 103 centuries to his name, the sole New Zealander and only the second non-Englishman since Don Bradman to pass the century of centuries milestone, an assessment of his career said that no subsequent player would surpass his 72 tons for Worcestershire.

Yiddish, once on the verge of oblivion, is passing a 21st-century milestone on Monday.

Drafted in Switzerland in 1974 at an international evangelical congress, it is regarded as a 20th-century milestone of evangelicalism.

But Ligeti's opera marked new territory, both as an extravagantly challenging composition that demands much of its performers and as a 20th-century milestone that New York's full-time opera companies had neglected to address.

The 64-year-old Del Bosque, the first Spain manager to reach the century milestone, gave a start to the 22-year-old Juventus forward Álvaro Morata, who scored his first goal for his country in March against Ukraine.

"Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years of Universal Limited Art Editions" marks the half-century milestone for the workshop and its association with the Museum of Modern Art: the museum has acquired one print from every edition made at Universal, more than 1,200 works by nearly 50 artists.

A century milestone Jean-Marie Colombani, who was the editor of Le Monde at the time of the attacks and wrote the front-page editorial, calls 9/11 the "true entry into the 21st century" — in the way that, say, the start of World War I in 1914 marked the de facto end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

Even in the youthful spontaneity of his debut 151 against India at Bangalore, he ceremonially motioned for his freshly-presented baggy green as the century milestone approached but when the moment arrived ripped it off his head anyway to reveal that shock of peroxide hair, not one strand out of place.

The test drivers were exposed to different new and old types of landscape objects such as 19th century church, wind turbine, 17th century milestone and bus stop, placed at different distances from the road driven.

2009 is the half-century milestone in the use of information technology for business applications, and it's an opportunity to look back and give a nod of appreciation to those early IT entrepreneurs.

The crossover "Blank Space" singer celebrated the quarter-century milestone on Saturday at her New York City apartment with a surplus of award-winning musicians, many of whom had appeared at Z100's  2014 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball earlier that day, E! News reported.