Sentences with phrase «annually on an unprecedented scale»

He did not engage in practical administration of the city of Rome in terms of its security or its food supply, as Gregory had had to do, although he didwelcome millions of people there annually on an unprecedented scale.

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• Scale: Achieving the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's long - term sequestration goals means boosting deep geological carbon dioxide storage from about 5 megatons per year to more than 22,000 megatons annually by the end of the century — an «unprecedented» undertaking that Mr. Thomson says will involve extensive new facilities and pipelines that would rival the world's oil industry infrastructure.