Sentences with phrase «of a few centuries»

New arts and sciences appear and are perfected over the course of a few centuries.
Bringing cold ice to its melting point in a few years, instead of a few centuries, implies that the ice suddenly becomes able to move a lot faster.
Conservative estimates so far, projected irreversible melting in the course of a few centuries, depending on the temperature increase.
The cold of the Little Ice Age of a few centuries ago seems to have involved both a little extra sun - blocking effect from explosive volcanic eruptions, and a small reduction in the sun's output....
LIA was a period of a few centuries long, not a year long period like the 2014, where actually your argument starts.
unusually low sunspot activity appears to be specifically aligned with the little ice age of a few centuries ago.
But beneath his self - assurance and the organization's bluster is a vulnerability both profound and unspoken: Bloomberg's epic multidecade run — the equivalent of a few centuries in the fast - moving technology sphere — has rested on a single product.
His four remarkable days in the United Kingdom were an historic event that would have been impossible to imagine even a few short decades ago, to say nothing of a few centuries ago.
Overall, model experiments show a CO2 equilibration time of a few centuries [5, 6, 11, 12].
However, I think we need to take a good hard look at the Pliocene, because we have driven one parameter straight into that era in a matter of a few centuries.
They might have formed when an entire herd of dinosaurs got stuck in quicksand all at once, or they might be the result of individuals getting stuck over the course of a few centuries.
1.8 - million - year - old skull shakes mankind's family tree — The fifth such skull from the region spanning a period of a few centuries, it's known at present only as «Skull 5» — it hasn't received a clever name yet like Lucy, the remarkable African skeleton found in the 70s and dating back 3.4 million years.
The potential consequences of warming include widespread famine, triggered by extreme drought in the major grain - producing areas of the world; the wholesale disappearance of the world's coral reefs; and sea levels rising by several meters over the course of a few centuries
As illustrated above, temperatures cooled since then but frequently spiked or plummeted by 2 to 3 degrees over the course of a few centuries.
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