111.   During a career that spanned half a century, she sang all the big roles, performed with the greats of her day and won nothing but raves.

112.   Dr. Hans Neuberger has been studying weather for more than half a century.

113.   During almost half a century, they have built up their nuclear industry without proliferation.

114.   Enrico Cuccia, a famously reclusive Italian banker who was at the center of Italian finance for half a century, died Friday in Milan.

115.   Energy costs fell for the third consecutive month and clothing prices showed the largest monthly drop in almost half a century.

116.   Early one evening nearly half a century ago, growing up in a rural town in southeastern Florida, I saw my first real express train.

117.   Ecuadoreans are tormented by their military defeat by Peru half a century ago.

118.   Even Egypt, where political and intellectual life once flourished, has been technically under martial law for half a century.

119.   Even Maradona supporters must recognize that Pele has placed a stronger stamp on world sport than Maradona, having been involved in soccer for nearly half a century.

120.   Even now, more than half a century after its hush-hush creation, Los Alamos is not a town that talks much.