Preposition: as

• city: In 2005 Cardiff celebrates its centenary as a city and fifty years as a capital.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• celebrate: However, in 2005, the journal published an additonal issue to celebrate the society's centenary.

Modifies a noun

• celebration: In 1978, at the time of the centenary celebrations, the original pews were replaced with more flexible modern chairs.

• exhibition: We shall be using this material in our centenary exhibition of the club in 2002.

• tribute: Click on picture for larger version and centenary tribute.

• shirt: Auction activity Three new Addicks auction items have now been listed on eBay, including a centenary shirt signed by Charlton legend Richard Rufus.

• dinner: I had a charming conversation with Kevin at the Norwich City centenary dinner.

• edition: A loose leaf edition was released, as was a centenary edition in 1937 on the anniversary of the birth of D. L. Moody.

Modifying Another Word

• first: The festival will mark the first centenary of Morley Library.

• double: We are coming up to the double centenary of the abolition of Britain's participation in the slave trade.

Used with adjective complement

• celebrate: The exhibition celebrates centenary of Dhaka regaining the status of a capital city on 16 October 1905.

• mark: County Hall marks centenary Tuesday 31 January 2006 The imposing Grade II* listed County Hall building in Northallerton is 100 years old today.

• suppose: The Princes ' visit was to mark the supposed centenary of the company - in fact the company was already 104 years old!

Preposition: in

• year: The celebration of the institution's third centenary in three years might be an appropriate time to ensure that we have such a center.

Preposition: of

• founding: Author of the 1958 pamphlet " The First Hundred Years " to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Cambridge School of Art.

• birth: This year sees the centenary of the birth of novelist Evelyn Waugh.

• discovery: It was originally set up in 1931 to mark the centenary of the discovery of electromagnetism by Michael Faraday.

• opening: Centenary of the opening of Snow Hill Congregational Church.

• death: The year 2000 sees the centenary of the death of John Charles Ryle.

• publication: A volume to mark the centenary of the publication of Lenin's 'What is to be done?