Sentences with phrase «millions of years from»

Some millions of years from now, that subduction zone (along with others acting to assemble the next supercontinent) will start pushing CO2 levels back up into the range that has prevailed for most of the latter Phanerozoic.

«Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings --[ROTATED: human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life and God guided this process, human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life, but God had no part in this process, or God created human beings in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it]?

We have foresight and can predict with virtual certainty that there will be a human ending cataclysmic asteroid event on earth sometime between a few years and some millions of years from now.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

A 2007 poll asked respondents if they believed that «Evolution, that is, the idea that human beings developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life,» is «definitely true, probably true, probably false, definitely false?»

Under the most accepted scenario, planets form over tens of millions of years from the slow accretion of dust, rocks, and gas.

What will become of humanity hundreds, thousands, millions of years from now?

Should the broiling rock breach the surface — which could happen, though not until tens of millions of years from now — it would transform New England into a burbling volcanic landscape.

Proponents say that diverted rivers, industrial mining, deforestation, extinctions, and urbanization, among other human - driven phenomena, have made deep and permanent changes to the planet that will show up in sediment millions of years from now.

«Standing on the surface of Mars a few tens of millions of years from now, it would be pretty spectacular to watch,» Black said.

Having shown that IGF -1-deficient mice also live longer, Bartke's study suggested not only that these pathways are important in mammals, but that they might have been crucial in controlling life span in a range of creatures evolving over hundreds of millions of years from a common ancestor of worms and mammals, says Miller.

Humans were not created instantaneously from dust and breath, but evolved over millions of years from simpler life forms.

And that it takes millions of years from a creature's death (e.g., dinosaurs) to being buried under ground to be exposed to tons of pressure from soll over it to finally become oil.

Other stars are forming around the rim of the bubble, and one of them is already massive enough that its fate is sealed: one day, million of years from now, it will explode.

Not exact matches

He quickly moved up the ranks in finance while delving into the investing world, starting with growing a $ 500,000 loan from the Continental Bank of Canada to $ 3.5 million in four years.

Varonis expects full - year earnings in the range of 1 cent to 7 cents per share, with revenue ranging from $ 264 million to $ 268.5 million.

New York - based Arconic said it now expected full - year profit of $ 1.17 to $ 1.27 per share, down from its previous forecast of $ 1.45 to $ 1.55, and halved its free cash flow estimate to $ 250 million.

In the second quarter, Foot Locker had earnings of $ 51 million, or 39 cents a share, down from $ 127 million, or 94 cents a share, a year earlier.

To start, he needed both people and funds — futuristic home doodads don't invent themselves — so he secured $ 12.5 million in subordinated debt financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada and Quebec's Fonds de solidarité FTQ, with flexible five - year payment terms (the latter a reward for years of solid financial management).

Within two years of its release, the company grew from selling 50,000 cases per year to nearly two million, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In a period of one year (2010 - 2011), the company saved 2.5 million sheets of paper, a 28 % drop in paper use from the year before, noted Laurence.

The new management team at accounting firm Lawrence Business Management has agreed to buy the business for $ 7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restructuring.

Through the end of October, the company has sold 2.6 million hardware units in the U.S., and on Monday, boosted its full year sales forecast (worldwide) for the Switch from 10 million to 14 million units.

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.

The higher margins prompted Bunge to raise its full - year earnings outlook for its agribusiness unit, which includes soybean crushing, to a range of $ 800 million to $ 1 billion from $ 550 million to...

New York - based Arconic said it now expected full - year profit of $ 1.17 to $ 1.27 per share, down from its previous forecast of $ 1.45 to $ 1.55, and halved its free cash flow estimate to $ 250 million.

That means employees who are currently exempt from overtime pay who earn less than this threshold will become nonexempt — employers will suddenly be required to pay overtime to over four million more employees within the first year of implementing the new rules.

Canadian pre-tax profits were US$ 9.1 million, down from US$ 20.9 million the prior year quarter when it gained US$ 8.1 million from a price adjustment on the sale of its stake in the Montreal Canadiens.

Sales rose 7.9 percent to $ 3.45 billion in the first quarter from a year earlier, slightly above the average analyst estimate of $ 3.34 billion, with aluminum prices accounting for $ 109 million or about 40 percent of the increase.

Sales of records came in at of 9.2 million in 2014, a 52 percent rise from the year before, marking the highest level since SoundScan started tracking the data in 1991.

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.

Other promises from leader Philippe Couillard have included the creation of 250,000 new jobs in Quebec over a five - year time span, a $ 160 million stimulus plan for small and medium businesses in the province, and a $ 150 million innovation fund.

In 2015, Tom Zhu said Tesla would double its spending on Chinese - made parts, committing to buying $ 500 million worth of supplies from Chinese companies that year; such spending has likely only skyrocketed.

The company said its profit of 1.02 billion euros was up from 641 million euros in the same quarter a year earlier, though net revenue edged down 2...

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

Gawker began a court - ordered auction of its business on Monday after losing a $ 140 - million court case earlier this year involving former wrestler Hulk Hogan, who sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after it published a clip from a sex tape he made with a friend's wife.

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

In the past two years, aided by a grant from the Small Business Administration, the network has helped a niche - group of energy entrepreneurs secure some $ 32 million in federal contracts and create an estimated 400 jobs.

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).

Sloane said that he is capable of providing 150 million litres of water every single day for a year from a single iceberg.

In less than a year, Weiss went from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she declined to be more specific) and managing a staff of 30.

The decrease in income tax expense was primarily driven by the lower U.S. corporate income tax rate, partially offset by the inclusion in the prior year quarter of a $ 15 million benefit from the resolution of prior year tax matters.

Spotify said it had 170 million active monthly users at the end of March, up 30 percent from the year - ago quarter.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

First quarter net income of $ 669 million and core income of $ 678 million, up 8 % and 10 %, respectively, from the prior year quarter, which includes $ 354 million pre-tax ($ 280 million after - tax) of catastrophe losses.

Marfeel, which brought in around $ 10 million in revenue last year ($ 11.8 million USD) from publishing clients around the world — and made the Inc. 5000 EU list at No. 283 this year — doesn't anticipate that the events of this week will have a lasting impact on sales.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

In the space of a year, it went from revenues of $ 114 million to $ 82 million, and from 900 employees to about 625.

This included 75 million paying subscribers, up 45 percent year - on - year, from which the company generates the vast majority of its revenue.