Sentences with phrase «millions of years long»

This has been happening for millions of years long before there was a U.S. And don't give me that global warming crap.

So if life were to exist here, Schulze - Makuch imagines it would have lifespans perhaps millions of years long.

We are still evolving, It just happens on a time scale that is millions of years long.

POLAR bears have patrolled the planet's icy regions for millions of years longer than previously thought — riding out several episodes of global warming in that time.

Not exact matches

Since the start of this year, the company has sold 50 million pints, making it the best - selling pint of ice cream in the U.S., surpassing long - time industry leaders like Häagen - Dazs and Ben & Jerry's.

According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.

A Quebec Superior Court judge awarded a group of Dunkin' Donuts franchisees $ 16.4 million in damages, plus legal costs, after ruling that parent company Dunkin' Brands failed to heed 15 years» worth of warnings that Tim Hortons was poised to topple the U.S. chain's long - held dominance of the Quebec market.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

The revelation the state government's Office of Shared Services is to be disbanded after costing taxpayers almost $ 450 million over six years is just the latest in a long line of public sector financial disasters.

It's a broad range that, according to your interpretation of the measure's wording, would include even very early - stage startups so long as they've received more than $ 1 million in funding over the course of a single tax year.

Though its long - term goal may be to directly compete with Apple, it's unlikely the software giant yet has the supply chains to make tens of millions of tablets a year.

Long delayed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Title III was the most controversial provision of the JOBS Act because it allowed non-accredited investors — generally defined as individuals with less than $ 1 million in assets who earn less than $ 200,000 per year — to invest in private companies as shareholders.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

Although it has been widely reported that he sold the Playboy Mansion for $ 100 million to his next - door neighbor last year, Hefner likely received none of that money — because by then, he no longer even owned the property.

If Adele's album sales stay on track to reach 2.5 million, 25 would become this year's best - selling album by a long shot, surpassing Taylor Swift's 1989, sales of which stood at 1.74 million as of Nov. 12, according to Billboard.

The company has moved from research on rats to the cusp of human trials in less than five years at a cost of less than $ 5 million, a process that can often take twice that long and cost many times more.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

(See The Curse of Microsoft Excel) I remember long arguments with clients in one of my first businesses, where we tracked customer satisfaction by making millions of phone calls each year to consumers at home to determine how satisfied they had been with a recent experience.

This long - overdue update more than doubles the former salary threshold (just $ 23,660 annually), thereby extending overtime pay protections to over 4 million additional workers in the first year of implementation alone.

When electrical line worker James Young lost both his arms in 2010 in a workplace accident, he had joined the long, grim list of those people who lose a limb — up to a million a year according to the World Health Organization.

After those two leveraged buyouts, Neiman carries long - term debt of $ 4.55 billion, on which it paid $ 289.9 million in interest last year.

Perhaps it was an inflated sense of public trust, an attitude of invincibility, or an unwillingness to own up to responsibility that led Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and other Facebook executives to take a painfully long time to formulate a response to the news that data firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to millions of its users» data three years ago.

«Taking this generation's diversity into account, our forecast for household formations over the next five years is 6.50 million to 6.75 million, or 1.30 million to 1.35 million per year, which is over 30 % higher than the long - term average rate of household formations,» Tirupattur says.

The one billion mark comes not long after Tencent's third - quarter results in November, which show that WeChat's monthly active user had passed 980 million, a significant 15.8 % increase compared to the same period of the previous year.

Investors have for years endured millions of dollars in short - term losses in hopes of a long - term...

Bloomberg Barclays Long U.S. Government Credit Index includes all publicly issued U.S. government and corporate securities that have a remaining maturity of 10 or more years, are rated investment grade, and have $ 250 million or more of outstanding face value.

My longest CEO gig (10 years) was with Acurex, which reached revenues of $ 65 million during my tenure.

As long as Apple continues to sell around the same number of devices each year — 217 million iPhones, more than 40 million iPads and almost 20 million Macs in fiscal 2017 — it can sell users of these devices a growing list of services that integrate tightly with the hardware.

We can often do what banks can not — including loans of up to $ 10 million, payback terms as long as 7 to 25 years, and dynamic solutions that combine term and lines of credit to satisfy short and long term financing needs.

Under the terms of that agreement, Khosrowshahi earned a $ 1 million base salary as well as «long - term» equity awards that could take years to vest.

Oscar Mayer has long been the largest customer of the Madison Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux said.

Remember, the vast majority of the world thinks it's impossible to consistently make more than 10 - 20 % / year returns so everyone eats up boring, conservative, diversified mutual funds and long - term investments, at their most speculative being in giant companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG)... viewing inspirational stories like this turning $ 1,500 into $ 1 million and and this international trader and this teenager with skepticism...

[04:03] I guess one way of looking at this is that I think on that bottom slide - long - term cash flow, GRG owns two million ounces equivalent production annually for the next, minimum, eight years.

On Feb. 24, 2014, the exchange went offline, and a document was leaked that outlined a years - long $ 450 million (Approx. 850,000 coins) hack of bitcoins that went completely undetected.

So, assuming that Comey didn't lose any substantial portion of the $ 11 million he had in 2013 — though he did reportedly take a $ 500,000 loss on the sale of his Connecticut home last year — his payout from Bridgewater Associates and his advance on «A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership» alone would put his net worth at around $ 15.5 million with the potential to increase that even more if his book stays atop the best - seller list for long.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Struggling to reach a long - term agreement, House Republicans plan to vote on a one - year extension of temporary tax breaks affecting millions of businesses and individuals.

NYMEX crude oil is the largest oil futures contract in the world and has a current total open interest of around 1.6 million contracts and it would be impossible for any group of speculators to sell or buy 53 days of world production in a year or longer, no less in a week as just occurred in COMEX silver.

Natural gas prices are likely to stay low for at least the next 20 years, with a long term annual average price of $ 4 to $ 5 per million Btu, a new study says.

Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft spend many millions of dollars lobbying government each year, but their cries for immigration reform long have failed to penetrate the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.

The chart they produced assumed a $ 1 million initial investment compounded at 20 % per year (after all — most money managers who are hyperactive in their trading espouse their desire to perform at least 70 % to 80 % better than the long - term average of the index.)

Few executives show more public passion for March Madness than the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A) CEO, whose contest for Berkshire employees this year offers a prize of $ 1 million per year for life for correctly predicting the Sweet Sixteen, or $ 1 million for nailing the first 32 games, or $ 100,000 to the person whose bracket remains perfect the longest.

Investors have for years endured millions of dollars in short - term losses in hopes of a long - term payoff.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

I spent a long time working in a job where my main task was to understand the mind of the average Times and New Yorker reader and raise several million dollars a year in contributions.

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.

About fifty million years ago, a brief moment in the long history of life on earth, geological evidence indicates, CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now.

HASA DIGA EEBOWAI Science speculates that millions of years ago the Universe was formed but catalysts can speed up processes that wud otherwise HAVE taken longer.

According to recent research, of the 210 million adults in the United States, 65 million of them used to attend church regularly but no longer do, and 2.7 million more leave every year.

Those who have been on AFDC for ten years or longer make up about 25 percent of the 11 million recipients, but consume about 60 percent of the more than $ 9 billion federal welfare budget.

What is worse, according to the IRS, Camping and Family Radio have over $ 30 million dollars invested in long term bonds and stocks, which produced a profit of just over a million dollars last year.