Sentence examples for half centenary from inspiring English sources

Doctor Who will celebrate its half centenary with a special birthday edition on 23 November, exactly 50 years after its first ever adventure, An Unearthly Child, starring William Hartnell in the title role.

In fact, Beryl Bainbridge made it afresh for BBC Bristol in 1984, to mark the half centenary – with real talent indeed, noting the decay and disparities of the first Thatcher recession.

There will be no better way to remember or discover Schoenberg in this season of the half-centenary of his death.

This, despite claims by Jardine that the Beach Boys will "definitely do at least one show" to mark the band's half-centenary.

In recognition of its half-centenary season, the company revisited mid-1960s glories—Pinter's The Homecoming and Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade (one of Peter Brook's greatest productions)—with decidedly mixed results.

But there was an addition to our somewhat lairy community singing this year – and that was "the football song" You'll Never Walk Alone, a nod to the half-centenary of Oscar Hammerstein II's death.

Fifty years on, a slew of books and TV programmes have inevitably been produced to mark the half-centenary of the presidential assassination, but this time one of the British authors has not been entirely eclipsed.

The football highlights show presented by Gary Lineker is a keystone of BBC1's Saturday night schedule, like another show which celebrated its half-centenary last year, Doctor Who.

An Adventure in Space and Time is one of a number of programmes that will mark Doctor Who's half-centenary later this year.

I resisted the urge to quip, "Well, if he is they certainly aren't paying him enough," because, standing on the grassy knoll, within yards of where John F Kennedy met his end, and within days of the half-centenary of this momentous event, levity hardly felt appropriate.

It will be recreated next year to mark its half century (belatedly) and the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war.