Perhaps, after all, the twentieth century isn't going to be so prosperous as the nineteenth.
At first a century goes through its childhood years.
Will the century go down as the worst one ever?
He wants to see annual attendance, 265,000 last year, return to more than a million, as it was half a century go.
As the 18th century went on, a steady growth in population took hold.
It would have been interesting to watch the centuries go by; see how people changed.
"The next century is going to be the century of the social sector."
That's what this century is going to be remembered for.
This seemed to be the same place, but older, now abandoned, as if a century or two had gone by.
At first there were only a few of them, but as the centuries went on, their numbers increased.