Sentences with phrase «more than a quarter of a century later»

Shot on location more than a quarter of a century later, Jules Dassin's masterpiece The Naked City (1948), a noir procedural inspired by Italian neorealism, offers a grittier view of Lower Manhattan from street level.

Now, more than a quarter of a century later — during which time he settled in the US, began collaborating with his wife Emilia, and acquired the status of one of the most important artists among former Soviet nonconformists — the tone and comportment of his work has changed.

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It was certainly more than I ever got out of doorsteps with Gordon Brown when he was prime minister a quarter of a century later.

For more than a quarter of a century, Baltimore has balanced his long hours as a leading scientific administrator — founder of the seminal Whitehead Institute, president of Rockefeller University and later, for nine years, of Caltech — with groundbreaking work in cancer, immunology, and AIDS research.

* The late - summer polar ice cap, already at historic lows today, would shrink only another quarter and hold steady by century's end, instead of melting by more than three - quarters with no let - up in sight.

«I, Tonya» digs deeper into the life of Tonya Harding to reveal an individual whose troubled life has far more nuance than the simplistically trashy perception depicted by the insane tabloid media frenzy of 1994, nor the erroneous punchline image of Harding as a talentless skating wannabe cemented by nearly a quarter century of late night comedians» monologue jokes and others.

After the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected her collection of more than 600 works, she opened the Whitney Museum of American Art on the site in 1931, where it remained until it outgrew the space nearly a quarter of a century later.