21.   It only takes a century.

22.   It sure beats manure, fuel of choice in Europe, but it takes a few centuries to catch on.

23.   It took centuries to settle disputes within Christiandom over the church.

24.   It took centuries, yet it was done in a matter of minutes.

25.   It has taken a few centuries for Americans to stop looking at flowers with suspicion.

26.   It took decades for apples to break in, and it may take a century for cars, but as of Friday Starbucks is selling coffee in Japan.

27.   Medieval architects designed churches that took centuries to construct.

28.   Producing mirrored glass was a technical feat that took centuries to perfect.

29.   Southerners, who until Vietnam were the only Americans who had lost a war, took a century to recover from the toll in blood, property and pride.

30.   Without this key, it can take centuries of computer analysis to decode a message.