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  2. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    36th century BC: 35th century BC: 34th century BC: 33rd century BC: 32nd century BC: 31st century BC: 3rd millennium BC · 3000–2001 BC 30th century BC: 29th century BC: 28th century BC: 27th century BC: 26th century BC: 25th century BC: 24th century BC: 23rd century BC: 22nd century BC: 21st century BC: 2nd millennium BC · 2000–1001 BC ...

  3. Century (cricket) - Wikipedia

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    A century is regarded as a landmark score for batters and a player's number of centuries is generally ... Reaching 50 runs in an innings is known as a half-century.

  4. Century - Wikipedia

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    A century is a period of 100 years or 10 decades. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, ...

  5. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Century: 100 Primarily denotes one hundred years, but occasionally used, especially in the context of competitive racing, to refer to something consisting of one hundred, as in a 100-mile race. Dozen: 12 A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] Baker's ...

  6. Anniversary - Wikipedia

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    There were also special terms for quarter , half , and three-quarters . Dodrans is a Latin contraction of de-quadrans which means "a whole unit less a quarter" (de means "from"; quadrans means "quarter"). Thus for the example of 175 years, the term is a quarter century less than the next whole (bi)century or 175 = (−25 + 200).

  7. 21st century - Wikipedia

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    The 21st century is the current century in the Anno Domini or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 2100 . It is the first century of the 3rd millennium .

  8. Biden leaves office nostalgic about five-decade career, and ...

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    Biden, after serving in public office for the better part of the past half-century, will enter private life having recently become a great-grandfather. His focus will turn, in part, to raising the ...

  9. 19th century - Wikipedia

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    Britain's overseas possessions grew rapidly in the first half of the century, especially with the expansion of vast territories in Canada, Australia, India, and in the last two decades of the century in Africa. By the end of the 19th century, the British controlled a fifth of the world's land and a quarter of the world's population.