21.   TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post.

22.   The figures, in what the company described as the worst economic conditions for almost half a century, enabled it to boost its dividend for shareholders.

23.   After the passage of nearly half a century, how easy it is to criticise the decision taken by a general in the midst of a most desperate battle.

24.   Cellophane, a leading manufacturer of packaging films for more than half a century, launched its quality systems registration effort two years ago, with and in charge.

25.   He was able to come back, and this was in the late nineteen fifties, half a century later, and tell us all about it.

26.   Almost half a century later, Joni Mitchell has come home to this city in the Canadian prairies where she grew up and where her parents still live.

27.   Although Milton Friedman came up with the idea of school vouchers nearly half a century ago, it has barely been put into practice.

28.   Although it is more than half a century old, it has suddenly become timely, because its message is one of religious tolerance and nonsectarianism.

29.   And for half a century the second-largest city in the metropolitan Los Angeles area was just too working-class, too secondary to be much of a destination.