Sentence examples for the last half of the twentieth century from inspiring English sources

The critic Robert Hughes calls R. Crumb "the Brueghel of the last half of the twentieth century".

I never revised my opinion that he was the most inspired leader of the last half of the twentieth century.

The last half of the twentieth century saw an increased attention to science education, including the study of evolution, in public schools.

This paper examines drivers of land-cover change in the U.S. Great Plains in the last half of the twentieth century.

Goldstein charts the rise of business environmentalism over the last half of the twentieth century and examines cleantech's unspoken assumptions of continuing cheap and abundant energy.

The debate about Kennedy is a conversation about the unhappy fate of liberalism in the last half of the twentieth century.

Finkelstein has composed a model intellectual and cultural history of the last half of the nineteenth century.

The basic ideas of dynamic compression, also known as supersonic, adiabatic, nonlinear hydrodynamics, were developed in the last half of the Nineteenth Century in European universities.

Of the many other experimenters who worked on the problems of flight in the last half of the nineteenth century, only a few can be mentioned here.

How did Galton's probability machine (the quincunx) provide him with the key to the major advance of the last half of the nineteenth century?

In spite of having been first introduced in the last half of the ninetieth century, the debate about the possible rebound effects from energy efficiency improvements is still an open question in the economic literature.