Sentences with phrase «hundreds of millions a year»

Some spend hundreds of million a year on legal services, while many more expect to increase their expenditure next year rather than reduce it.

These magnetic imprints on the ocean floor can be used as a sort of time machine, allowing past field changes to be reconstructed and showing the movement of tectonic plates from hundreds of million years ago until the present day.

Day 15 — Depart Wilpena Pound Resort at 0900 for Adelaide traveling via the geological trail through the Bunyeroo Gorge and Brachina Gorge (this gorge traces the geological history of the area for hundreds of million years), Hawker, Port Pirie, Port Germein and Port Augusta (the crossroads of Australia).

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.»

Spending hundreds of millions every year on everything the reclamation, improving efficiency, environmental research and development, safety etc, on their own.

Data gathered from the previous galaxy clusters were studied by teams all over the world, enabling them to make important discoveries, among them galaxies that existed only hundreds of million years after the Big Bang heic1523 and the first predicted appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova heic1525.

Planet Earth was blue long before we knew Earth may have become a watery world just 200 million years after it formed, making it a potential home for life hundreds of million years earlier than thought.

«These galaxies entered a feeding frenzy that would quickly exhaust the food supply in the following hundreds of million years and lead to the new galaxy's slow starvation for the rest of its life,» said lead author Hai Fu, a UC Irvine postdoctoral scholar.

But «Oumuamua has a more neutral colour, suggesting it has only been impacted by cosmic rays for, at most, hundreds of million years rather than for the billions of years that our solar system has existed.

Jim Murphy, CEO of CAAMP, a Canadian trade organization representing mortgage brokers, has been actively petitioning the federal government for stiffer penalties for mortgage fraud, a crime that the Canadian Intelligence Services has estimated costs hundreds of millions a year.

But what about the paleoclimate — that period millions and hundreds of millions years ago?

Day 16 — Depart Wilpena Pound Resort at 0900 for Adelaide travelling via the geological trail through the Bunyeroo Gorge and Brachina Gorge (this gorge traces the geological history of the area for hundreds of million years), Hawker, Port Pirie, Port Germein and Port Augusta (the crossroads of Australia).

Some isotopes that existed when the Solar System formed are radioactive and have decay rates that caused them to become extinct within tens to hundreds of million years.

This helium - burning, orange - red giant stage is relatively brief, lasting tens to hundreds of million years (e.g., lasting around 700 million years for a star of one Solar mass like the Sun).

The very idea of the millions and hundreds of millions years that were needed peacefully to ravage the surface of the earth here is a perverse one, since it brings with it an awareness of signs originating long before man appeared, in a sort of pact of wear and erosion struck between the elements.

You know, the same company that manages to sell 10 + million phones in a weekend, 50 + million in a quarter, and hundreds of millions a year.