Sentences with «tens to hundreds of thousands of years»
Never mind that cultures have endured for tens to hundreds of thousands of years without economic or population growth, yet our culture went from Adam Smith to the video above in under 250 years. (inc.com)
It has long been known that characteristics of the Earth's orbit (its eccentricity, the degree to which it is tilted, and its «wobble») are slightly altered on timescales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. (realclimate.org)
Geological processes will take anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of years — perhaps longer — to redistribute the carbon further among the geological reservoirs. (metlink.org)