Sentences with phrase «hundreds to thousands of years old»

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Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

The 11 - year - old online marketplace has more than a hundred million users and a hundred thousand sellers shipping more than 8 million packages a month, customers Walmart has n`t been able to reach because of strict regulations limiting foreign retailer «s ability to run big stores in India.

It says that a 600 - year - old man built a ship big enough to hold hundreds of thousands of animals, even though the ship was smaller than most current cruise ships.

Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of parents can not afford to lose the pittance that a four - year - old child can earn; thus even free primary education is an unaffordable luxury for many.

Gary Haugen was 30 years old, working as a prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice when he was sent on an assignment that would change his life: He went to Rwanda to investigate the genocide that had killed hundreds of thousands.

We have an entire branch of government devoted to interpreting the Consttution and laws passed by Congress, and those are written in English and only a couple hundred years old at the most, not thousands of years ago from a different language and culture.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

You end up looking really stupid trying to cater to those folks holding onto views that are hundreds of years, if not thousands of years old.

So the whole numbers of the people of Israel... from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war in Israel — their whole number was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

Dean Skelos, 67, was the state's most powerful Republican before his May arrest on charges that he abused his position to make hundreds of thousands of dollars for his 33 - year - old son.

One hundred and forty thousand disadvantaged two - year - olds could gain access to 15 hours a week of free early education, according to new government plans.

Besides, Ibrahim said 30 - year - old Orjiakor Chima of Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State was arrested for issuing fake euros to one Abdullahi Shuaibu, totalling one million, seven hundred and ninety - four thousand and five hundred naira.

Ancient cave bears, which roamed from the United Kingdom to Russia for hundreds of thousands of years, made a strong impression on Stone Age artists, who included them in a 30,000 - year - old gallery of animals lining the walls of Chauvet cave in modern France.

If the fossils are, in fact, older members of the tiny hobbit lineage, then Flores seems to have been their home for hundreds of thousands of years.

Olive (Olea europaea) A relative of jasmine, lilac, and garden sage, olives have been cultivated in the Mediterranean for seven thousand years, and individual trees live to be hundreds of years old.

The main battle centres on the attempts of a small band of researchers to prove that human races are hundreds of thousands of years older than conventional theories would have us believe.

Though its physical features are closer to human than other australopithecines, A. sediba is hundreds of thousands of years younger than the oldest fossils assigned to the genus Homo, meaning it is unlikely to be our direct ancestor.

The burning of fossil fuels is altering the ratio of carbon in the atmosphere, which may cause objects tested in the coming decades to seem hundreds or thousands of years older than they actually are, according a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The website is about 15 years old and has catered to the needs of several hundred thousands of members.

If you are 18 years or older and have a valid email address, you're qualified to join this site and connect with hundreds of thousands of interesting people from all over the world.

His vision for giving authors a place from which to release their works is only six years old, but in that time his work has made hundreds of thousands of titles available for readers around the globe.

Living in an economically depressed America in 1897, 21 - year - old Jack London would become one of hundreds of thousands of stampeders who would try — and fail — to find gold in Canada's Yukon Territory.

Sixteen - year - old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred thousand dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate.

That's unlike the old days, say 15 years ago, when if you published your own book, you had to commit to buying hundreds or thousands of copies.

There are many other historic and beautiful structures that attract hundreds of thousands of tourists to Hyderabad every year, including such must - see attractions in the Old City as Mecca Masjid, Chowmahalla Palace and Golconda Fort.

We are right next to the piazza Duomo, with its seven hundred year old palaces, the cathedral, the fountain of Amenano river, and the old fish market with its thousands of colours and intense smells.

If you can provide me with data that shows that hundred of thousands of years old ice which used to be known as completely solid but which has now lost a good majority of its internal volume is normal..

By combining the two sets of seemingly contradictory facts — alternative facts, we can see that while the Amazonian forests are certainly old - growth forests, having existed in their current states for hundreds, up to thousands, of years, they are not «virgin forest, primeval forest» at all but have actually been created by long - term interactions with the human civilizations that lived within them.

But it's a bit hard to change a couple of hundred thousand or maybe a few million years old year human culture where your food always comes from the land in one way or another.

Last week: Last weekend, my 18 - year - old daughter and I joined hundreds of thousands of Americans in calling for change to our nation's gun laws at the March for Our Lives demonstration in Washington.