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An example use of century in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… to people in a century history is merely …”
A century is a period of 100 years.
the word century occurs in english on average 75.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.