half a century

Tue, 05 May 2026 13:47:12 +0000

A half century is 50 years. So "more than a half century" is "longer than 50 years". When using these words you need to be careful. Sometimes a century is any period of 100 years. Other times. My guess would be that while speaking off-the-cuff, the speaker tried to say "in the last half-century" and "in a little over half a century" at the same time and that was the result. For fifty years you also say 1. half a century 2. half of a century 3. a half of a century I understand you say #1, but Im not sure about #2 or #3. Are #2 and #3 good English? Some of them were constructed half a century ago. You need "were" or the sentence will sound as if the buildings were constructing something.