What's the difference between centenaries and centenary?
Centenaries
Definition:
(pl. ) of Centenary
Example Sentences:
(1) On 8 January, the ANC held its centenary celebrations in a large sports stadium in the provincial town of Bloemfontein.
(2) • Jeremy Paxman, the Newsnight presenter, has criticised David Cameron for comments he made on how Britain will mark the centenary of the first world war.
(3) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
(4) Three minutes’ walk from Westfield is Centenary Square, the redeveloped public space that now blurs into City Park, a huge combination of a shallow artificial lake and towering fountains.
(5) But there is another, much less regarded, yet significant centenary occurring this year – 1914 saw the passage of the Government of Ireland Act , the first extensive legislation for devolution in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
(6) Last year, Hastings indicted Gove's boss David Cameron for sucking up to the Germans intolerably over events commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.
(7) For anyone visiting the Emerald Isle it will be hard to miss the centenary salutes throughout the year.
(8) September A dining car on the Trans-Siberian – the 9,288km railway from Moscow to Vladivostok celebrated the centenary of its completion this year.
(9) In 1981, with Joyce's centenary celebrations looming, he resumed work on the illustration series.
(10) On the eve of the museum's centenary, Professor Chris Rapley, said that people needed to be shown a positive picture of low-carbon future rather than focus on how difficult the global warming problem is.
(11) The centenary of the first world war takes place this July, not August.
(12) The Brazilians gave a present for their centenary,” he added.
(13) The Glasgow Games will be followed immediately by the main, official first world war centenary remembrance service at Glasgow Cathedral – a commemoration seen by pro-unity campaigners as evidence of the UK's powerful shared history.
(14) Speaking on Tuesday at Broadcasting House, Hall will set out his vision for the corporation over the next decade, running up to its centenary in 2022.
(15) This may threaten their party’s chances in the republic’s general election, likely in the spring, which could coincide with the centenary of the 1916 rising.
(16) The team that delivers the Proms, the World Cup, the royal wedding, and our coverage of the world war one Centenary.
(17) Culture secretary Maria Miller, communities secretary Eric Pickles and the prime minister's special representative for the centenary, Andrew Murrison, will unveil plans to spend more than £50m, including a substantial grant towards refurbishing the first world war galleries at the Imperial War Museum and a grant to make HMS Caroline, the last surviving warship from the battle of Jutland, into a floating museum.
(18) The life and works of Claude Bernard (1813-1878) have been discussed with special reference to the importance of his researches in relation to modern anaesthesia and in commemoration of the centenary of his death.
(19) "As we head towards our centenary in 2022 I want us to be much more confident about the mission Lord Reith gave us 100 years before," he said.
(20) While he laments a conspiratorial denigration of “the bravery of men and women who fought for, and believed in, Britain’s special tradition of liberty”, it would have perhaps been polite for him to acknowledge in the centenary of that conflict that of those fighting for British liberty, only slightly fewer than 15% were actually British.
Centenary
Definition:
(a.) Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
(a.) Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.
(n.) The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.
(n.) A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 8 January, the ANC held its centenary celebrations in a large sports stadium in the provincial town of Bloemfontein.
(2) • Jeremy Paxman, the Newsnight presenter, has criticised David Cameron for comments he made on how Britain will mark the centenary of the first world war.
(3) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
(4) Three minutes’ walk from Westfield is Centenary Square, the redeveloped public space that now blurs into City Park, a huge combination of a shallow artificial lake and towering fountains.
(5) But there is another, much less regarded, yet significant centenary occurring this year – 1914 saw the passage of the Government of Ireland Act , the first extensive legislation for devolution in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
(6) Last year, Hastings indicted Gove's boss David Cameron for sucking up to the Germans intolerably over events commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.
(7) For anyone visiting the Emerald Isle it will be hard to miss the centenary salutes throughout the year.
(8) September A dining car on the Trans-Siberian – the 9,288km railway from Moscow to Vladivostok celebrated the centenary of its completion this year.
(9) In 1981, with Joyce's centenary celebrations looming, he resumed work on the illustration series.
(10) On the eve of the museum's centenary, Professor Chris Rapley, said that people needed to be shown a positive picture of low-carbon future rather than focus on how difficult the global warming problem is.
(11) The centenary of the first world war takes place this July, not August.
(12) The Brazilians gave a present for their centenary,” he added.
(13) The Glasgow Games will be followed immediately by the main, official first world war centenary remembrance service at Glasgow Cathedral – a commemoration seen by pro-unity campaigners as evidence of the UK's powerful shared history.
(14) Speaking on Tuesday at Broadcasting House, Hall will set out his vision for the corporation over the next decade, running up to its centenary in 2022.
(15) This may threaten their party’s chances in the republic’s general election, likely in the spring, which could coincide with the centenary of the 1916 rising.
(16) The team that delivers the Proms, the World Cup, the royal wedding, and our coverage of the world war one Centenary.
(17) Culture secretary Maria Miller, communities secretary Eric Pickles and the prime minister's special representative for the centenary, Andrew Murrison, will unveil plans to spend more than £50m, including a substantial grant towards refurbishing the first world war galleries at the Imperial War Museum and a grant to make HMS Caroline, the last surviving warship from the battle of Jutland, into a floating museum.
(18) The life and works of Claude Bernard (1813-1878) have been discussed with special reference to the importance of his researches in relation to modern anaesthesia and in commemoration of the centenary of his death.
(19) "As we head towards our centenary in 2022 I want us to be much more confident about the mission Lord Reith gave us 100 years before," he said.
(20) While he laments a conspiratorial denigration of “the bravery of men and women who fought for, and believed in, Britain’s special tradition of liberty”, it would have perhaps been polite for him to acknowledge in the centenary of that conflict that of those fighting for British liberty, only slightly fewer than 15% were actually British.