Sentences with phrase «only hundreds of million years»

Data gathered from the previous galaxy clusters were studied by teams all over the world, enabling them to make important discoveries, among them galaxies that existed only hundreds of million years after the Big Bang heic1523 and the first predicted appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova heic1525.

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It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

Now, only 60 years later, even by the most conservative estimates, there are hundreds of millions of Christians.

Our bodies have evolved to eat whole foods over millions of years while manufactured and processed foods have only been around for a couple hundred years.

However, while blanket sweeps have raided hundreds of millions of dollars statewide from dedicated funds in recent years, according to a report from the state comptroller [PDF], only a small fraction of the sweeps have affected transit funding.

In the years since, Cuomo has spent hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining the status quo, a situation that will only grow more expensive in the years to come.

«We know that it'll only cost $ 2 per New Yorker, and that's a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors.»

«The prospect of these across the board closures was very real and not only would have been devastated these communities, but caused ripple effects in New York's dairy industry and beyond,» Cuomo said in a statement «This agreement reverses course and, saves hundreds of local jobs and commits Kraft - Heinz to invest millions of dollars in the Upstate economy, with the potential for job increases in the years to come.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

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.

Computer simulations show that a collection of stars as densely packed as those at the heart of M32 should collapse in on itself within only a few hundred million years.

Even more important, the first solid evidence of lethal group violence among our ancestors dates back not millions, hundreds of thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, but only 13,000 years.

Only a few hundred years ago, for instance, millions of bison roamed the western United States.

The first stars, which formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, were composed of only hydrogen, helium, and traces of lithium.

«If you eliminated all of the new projects, I don't think it would have solved this problem,» says Mendelsohn, noting they only add up to «a few hundred million» dollars spread over several years.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

It is rather early to speculate, but maybe Pluto captured Charon only a few hundred million years ago (rather than billions), and we are seeing the effect of the very strong tidal interactions that would have ensued.

Whereas the first sequencing of the 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA that make up the human genome took many years and cost tens of millions of dollars, today your genome can be sequenced and digitized in minutes and at the cost of only a few hundred dollars.

It would be comforting to think that a few hundred million years of evolution have put considerable distance between us and our insect kin, but only some of us are immune to insect - killing venoms.

The cluster is more than 12 billion years old, which means the stars that the researchers looked at formed only a few hundred million years after the death of first - generation stars.

But «Oumuamua has a more neutral colour, suggesting it has only been impacted by cosmic rays for, at most, hundreds of million years rather than for the billions of years that our solar system has existed.

«A $ 400 million satellite is only a couple particles per year, and you want hundreds of thousands,» Wakely told SPACE.com.

It's probably the remains of a star that exploded hundreds or millions of years ago, and whose light is only now reaching our skies.

As the distance to that galaxy is only 70 Megaparsec or 230 million light years, we are able to examine the jet structure with an unprecedented accuracy of only a few hundred black hole radii or 12 light days», concludes Professor Anton Zensus, director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany and head of its VLBI research department, a co-author of the paper.

With the practice of spending only about 5 % of assets each year and given the large (and effective) efforts the Foundation makes in developing country health - care, Gates only spends a couple hundred million dollars on education reform each year.

Barnes & Noble last year scaled back its Nook business dramatically to stanch losses that were in the hundreds of millions per year at one point, and now only works with a manufacturer, Samsung, to sell new devices: in August, Barnes & Noble launched its first new tablet in almost two years,

«I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error.

I think we'll continue to see that indie author earnings are spread across an enormous spectrum, with a very few authors earning millions per year and hundreds of thousands who earn only a few hundred per year.

One can easily earn half a million points a year just by signing up for credit cards, and literally pay only a couple of hundred dollars at most in annual fees.

While the impact of one domesticated cat doesn't seem that much, it is estimated that cats kill hundreds of millions of birds every year with feral cats only killing 20 % of that number.

Loose cats are estimated to kill hundreds of millions of birds each year, yet birds are believed to be only 20 percent of the wildlife stray cats kill.1 Birds are especially at risk around homes with feeders and birdbaths.1

«increasing the RF on the Earth, by emitting more CO2, will automatically lead to a warmer Earth», is not only unproven but flies against hundreds of millions of years of actual evidence.

Given the fact that tree rings indicate the oldest living tree to be about 5,000 years old (roughly when you would expect the worldwide flood to have happened), and given the fact that the oldest tree ring chronologies (which are upper limits) extend only to a bit over 10,000 years, it is hard to believe that these kinds of trees have existed for hundreds of millions of years.

If gymnosperms have been around for hundreds of millions of years, why do these chronologies extend only to a little over 10,000 years, which is an upper limit?

Therefore... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long... seven hundred and forty - two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three - quarters long.

Biomass is a renewable energy source not only because the energy in it comes from the sun, but also because biomass can re-grow over a relatively short period of time compared with the hundreds of millions of years that it took for fossil fuels to form.

Configuration of continents help explain climates of 10's and hundreds of millions of years ago, but only rarely result in noticeable climate shifts.

Shaviv 2003 only reports a an explanation of 66 % of variance on timescales of hundreds of millions of years.

The bottom line is that these proxies are attempting to determine whether CO2 leads or follows temperatures — a time resolution of only a few centuries for events that took place hundreds of millions of years ago.

Within only a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

This successful elimination of a feared disease, which required a worldwide immunization program, saves not only millions of lives but also hundreds of millions of dollars each year in smallpox vaccination programs and billions of dollars in health care expenditures.

It only takes more time, a few hundreds of millions of years, to get things back where they are today..

The bills offer hundreds of millions of dollars for mental health programs and school safety and raise the age to purchase all firearms to 21 years or older and require three - day waiting periods, requirements that are currently only in place for handguns.

While a bank only offers the products from their particular institution, licensed mortgage professionals send millions of dollars in mortgage business each year to Canada's largest banks, credit unions, trust companies, and financial institutions; offering their clients more choice, and access to hundreds of mortgage products!