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Over the course of a century and a half, 80,000 people were tried for witchcraft and half of them were executed, often burned alive.

The traces of classical thought in the encyclopedia, as well as their literary form, give an indication that the work was assembled in the course of the century and a half from 840 to about 980.

In the course of that century and a half when rails tied together nations and continents, great trains departed from and arrived at various terminals in most major cities.

Of course, one other century-and-a-half formerly fuddy-duddy brand had managed to update itself for the 21st century: Burberry.

Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half.

Has the novel dated in the course of a century?

A century and a half later, of course, we now live in a world that is far more highly developed in these ways.

Maynard Smith helped illuminate many areas in biology over the course of a half-century of research.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams became pen pals exchanging handwritten notes over the course of a half a century.

The book's much admired illustrations of Altamira were the work of a young priest with a painterly eye, Henri Breuil, who, in the course of half a century, became known as the Pope of Prehistory.

In the course of half a century of observing wild animals, the field biologist George Schaller has been gradually moving higher, heading toward thinner air and lonelier places.