Sentences with phrase «lasted millions of years»

(2) The glacial epoch itself seemed to have been a relatively stable condition that lasted millions of years.

The Paleolithic period lasted millions of years.

This period lasted millions of years and came to an end around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

Around 720 - 640 million years ago, much of the Earth's surface was covered in ice during a glaciation that lasted millions of years.

During this period of irregularity, which may have lasted millions of years, any rocky inner world sitting in the path of the hot Jupiter and its new orbit would have been obliterated.

Muslims used to pray towards Jerusalem before Mecca.And also it does not matter if Jews lived in Palestine for last millions of years.

Hemoglobin breaks down rapidly and could not last millions of years.

The Cambrian Explosion being represented as something like a magician's slight of hand instead of something lasting millions of years.

New visions of the mountain, or of any other reality, are possible; and so Merleau - Ponty comments that for «painters the world will always be yet to be painted, even if it lasts millions of years... it will end without having been conquered in painting» (PP 181).

If species die in a geological stage — which lasts millions of years — geologists tend to lump the extinctions together at the end.

The results showed that genera occupying areas that had been more climatically stable during the last millions of years had diversified into more species than their closest sister genera inhabiting more climatically variable areas.

In our own planet, we can see what has gone on in the last millions of years but very little about what happened billions of years ago.

Stone Age A prehistoric period, lasting millions of years and ending tens of thousands of years ago, when weapons and tools were made of stone or of materials such as bone, wood, or horn.

Well, it won't last millions of years into the future, but, frankly, I think our longest - lived Legacies will be (a) the Carbon Dioxide we emit, and (b) our plastics.

This means that I already studied and have actually mapped and / or drilled through the record of the earth climate of the past hundreds of millions of years, the last tens of millions of years, the last millions of years, the last hundreds of thousands of years and the last thousands of years and the last hundreds of years.

How do you know fuels on the Earth can last millions of years?

Not exact matches

Manafort's ties to Russia came under scrutiny in August of last year, when The New York Times discovered that a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine designated him $ 12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments.

According to internal documents released last year, BuzzFeed was already generating revenue of about $ 100 million in 2014 and was profitable.

More than 16 million digital packets were sent on the eve of Chinese New Year in 2014, but that grew to 14.2 billion for the same day last yYear in 2014, but that grew to 14.2 billion for the same day last yearyear.

Revenue for the first half of this year was $ 560.6 million, an increase of 51 percent over the same period last year.

CRC estimates that if it had owned 100 % of the field last year, these interests would have added approximately 64 million BOE of proved reserves at year - end 2017, of which approximately 75 % are considered proved developed.

Last week, a report from the China Tourism Academy and Ctrip said they expected the number of outbound Chinese travelers this year to reach a new record of 6.5 million.

Some perspective: That's more than the nearly $ 675 million in Oreo sales last year, and more than the sale of Chips Ahoy and Milano combined.»

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

Ferdinand's murder sent the Great Powers into a war that would last five years and cost the lives of 10 million troops.

McDonald's launched its digital app at the end of the third quarter last year and had millions of downloads within three months.

«In my paper, I read about a mattress company that floated on AIM yesterday and raised # 35 million, is now valued at # 140 million, but last year made an EBITDA loss of # 11 million,» Walsh said at Tuesday's conference.

Crypt been a hit with viewers — a handful of episodes have been viewed more than 5 million times, while most generate numbers in the hundreds of thousands — and produced revenue in the seven figures last year, says Davis, who declined to get specific.

And while Upworthy is no doubt proud of its 167 million views, BuzzFeed Motion Pictures said last year that it had more than one billion video views in a single month.

Notable wins for the CFPB include its $ 100 million fine against Wells Fargo Bank last year for its practice of opening unauthorized deposit accounts and credit cards.

Last year, Musk bought a home in Los Angeles — his fifth in the fancy neighborhood of Bel Air — for $ 24.25 million.

But it still recorded only 1.59 million new users, compared with estimates of 1.62 million — and sharply lower than the 1.9 million it signed up in the same quarter last year.

Scandal has followed PokerStars — last year saw a $ 870 - million judgment from the Commonwealth of Kentucky that ruled the site was in violation of its gambling laws.

Dwyer, the parent company of eight service - oriented franchises, last year awarded $ 2.3 million in discounts to vets.

One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the dark.

The firm's mortgage investment corporation has about 2,400 such loans in its portfolio, with an average size of $ 85,000, and says it maintained a $ 4.3 - million loan loss provision on a $ 214 - million portfolio last year.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

Last year, the world's largest dietary supplement maker, GNC Holdings Inc, agreed to pay $ 2.25 million to avoid federal prosecution over its alleged sale of illegal pills and powders.

UBM bought trade show organizer Advanstar last year for $ 972 million, capping off a five - year spree in which it acquired 53 companies, most of them bolt - ons.

Huajian is Ethiopia's largest shoe exporter, shipping out $ 19.3 million worth of goods last fiscal year, according to Ethiopia's Leather Industry Development Institute.

Since last year about 1.4 million commercial trucks, over 4 % of the total, have disappeared from America's roads.

While the year isn't over yet, 2016 is shy of last year's figure at less than $ 500 million.

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.

Its net interest income, the «spread» between what it charges on loans and pays for the deposits that fund those borrowings, jumped from by $ 900 million or 9 % to $ 11.2 billion, compared with Q2 of last year.

The last thing he wants is to have to spend the next few years publicly defending legislation that takes away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans and raises the premiums for tens of millions more (whether he believes in the merits of that legislation or not).

Lowry declined to give specific figures, but said the company's revenue was in the tens of millions of dollars last year.

In the last couple years, his foundation offered up $ 2 million to establish a chair at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, $ 2 million for a chief curator at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, and yet another $ 2 million to help endow a chair in central banking at Western University.

Approximately 89 million shoppers flocked to stores during Black Friday weekend last year, with nearly half finishing all or most of their shopping, according to the National Retail Federation.

Last year, New Belgium Brewing sold over half a million barrels of beer, which makes it all the more remarkable that CEO Kim Jordan doesn't have any employees.

The company has about $ 168 million in funding and processed $ 2 billion worth of transactions last year.