Sentences with phrase «for hundreds of million years»

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Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

Shifting to alternate - day delivery or community mailboxes for every home could yield operational savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

• Expanding upon data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

Peter Rahal, who along with Jared Smith founded RXBar, recalls a pivotal moment that set the philosophy of their nutrition bar company — one that would eventually be acquired by Kellogg for hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

In essence, at a bifurcation in history, civilizations could be capped at a few thousand years or, alternatively, last for hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of years.

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

Richard Martin, senior editor for energy at MIT Technology review, called the plan «bonkers» and that «the idea of combining solar power with automaking is a bit like Ford buying ExxonMobil — if both were losing hundreds of millions a year.»

Over the past five years, Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron have all pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for drilling rights to parcels of the Beaufort Sea.

This suggests that «Oumuamua could have been traveling through space, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years.

You travel hundreds of thousands of miles, performing for millions of people every year... and run a variety of companies and ventures.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

It's every startup founder's dream: being acquired for hundreds of millions without years of slogging away for decades.

Graziosi, who's generated hundreds of millions of dollars with his brands, companies and investments, with a 15 - year television career, argues that creating a true vision for your future by looking backwards will get you exponentially better results than setting goals in the traditional sense.

As for the thousands of other apps that have plugged into Facebook over the years, the number of affected users could easily be in the hundreds of millions.

In fact, hundreds of million dollar and multi-million dollar properties are lingering on the market, sometimes for years.

It is expected to stay in orbit for hundreds of millions of years.

Martin, a native of Scotland who has been with the company for 19 years, declined to disclose specifics about Inventus» revenue, but he said it is in the «hundreds of millions» of dollars annually.

We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research and so on, we've been doing this for 37 years.»

Science has proven the world to be billions of years old, and has proven that life has existed on this planet for hundreds of millions of years.

Evolution has operated quietly on this planet for hundreds of millions of years, and will continue to do so long after there are no people left to not believe in it.

Millions of Americans go under the knife for plastic surgery, inject toxins and chemicals into their face and lips, pay hundreds of dollars a year dying their hair, buying cosmetics, etc..

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

Animal welfare activists remind us that hundreds of millions of animals are used each year as idols for questionable research in science and as victims of inhumane treatment in industry, including food industries that rear and slaughter animals for meat.

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«The DNA's digital system of storage renews itself without our help, copying faithfully for hundreds of millions of years.

Why must millions be doomed for hundreds of years to live and die without the slightest possibility of knowing anything about him?

For the distant nebulae, as seen through the telescope, we are looking back through hundreds of millions of years.

I can tell you that many more lives would have been ruined had it not been for the hundreds of millions of confessions heard every year and the advice recieved and the grace given by God to overcome our weaknesses.

(I have worked as a paralegal for famous civil rights attorneys in the U.S., they won hundreds of millions of dollars, the US Supreme Court heard one of their cases a couple of years ago, and they move in to legal action very quickly.)

For thirty years the electric oven hood has sold an average of less than a few hundred thousand units a year, while today almost every household in the United States and Canada owns at least one color TV set, and more than 5 million sets are sold annually.

For thirty years the electric oven hood has sold an average of less than a few hundred thousand units a year, while today almost every household in the United States and Canada owns at least one color TV set, and more than 5 million sets are sold annually.1 What made the difference?

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years - it isn't over yet - and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years — it isn't over yet — and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

Today this is no longer true, mainly because no network can afford to let the opposition get even slightly ahead in the ratings which determine the rates for hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising billings each year.

Tesco has worked with Cancer Research for more than ten years, raising hundreds of millions of pounds to help combat an illness that will affect one in three of the population...

The geologists know exactly what rocks to look for fossil fuels in, because they know how to date the rocks to tens or hundreds of millions of years ago.

It is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional free will theism, who created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of human beings.

, then you try to tell us viruses have been around for hundreds of millions of years.

This is so ridiculous... can there still be hope for humanity after more than two thousand years and hundreds of millions of people trying to interpret such a entangled monstruosity with no spare space in its pages for more contradictions?

TWE suffered a $ 101 million loss for the 2013/14 financial year following a turbulent 12 months that included senior management changes, a major restructure and the costly destruction of hundreds of thousands of cases of old and excess wine.

17 June, 2014 MEDIA STATEMENT Australian Beverages Council responds to calls for soft drink tax «The non-alcoholic beverages industry is not anti-tax and pays hundreds of millions of dollars in tax each year, but it is against discriminatory and regressive measures such as taxing specific products, such as soft drinks — as a means to -LSB-...]

Every year hundreds of millions of animals from around the world are exported live for slaughter.

Beyarn built their stadium 2002 for $ 320 million whic is around # 235 million a third cost of Emirates and PSG stadium is over a hundred years old

There is no guarantee for ANY club in PL to win the title (ask Man City and Utd who spent hundreds of millions last year and could not buy the Title!)