Sentences with phrase «over billions of years resulted»

We've got a few hundred years at best, of scientific observation, that has now told us that one giant, explosive, random event started a chain reaction that, over billions of years resulted in humans, and flowers, and viruses, and dinosaurs.

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We have access to thousands of accounts spending billions of dollars on PPC advertising, and over the years consistently found that small to medium - size businesses struggled to manage their accounts in a way that was cost effective and earned them the best results.

Apple's gargantuan net income has piled up over the years, resulting in a cash reserve of $ 267.2 billion as of the March quarter.

The first policy would likely have significant costs as a result of fewer firms paying the mandate penalty, and the second policy was estimated in 2015 to cost $ 53 billion over ten years.

Over the last 10 years, $ 135 billion has been called from investors and $ 152 billion has been returned resulting in $ 17 billion of excess distributions to investors.

As a result, non-defense discretionary BA would decline over most of the ten - year window from $ 519 billion in 2017 to $ 424 billion by 2027.

BOSTON — January 16, 2018 — GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that the comprehensive review and reserve testing for GE Capital's run - off insurance portfolio, North American Life & Health (NALH), will result in an after - tax GAAP charge of $ 6.2 billion for the fourth quarter of 2017, and GE Capital expects to make statutory reserve contributions of ~ $ 15 billion over seven years.

Together with the Starbucks leadership team, Howard Schultz, chairman and ceo of Starbucks, will honor the accomplishments of the company over the past year of delivering record financial results as the company heads toward achieving a $ 100 billion market cap.

The PBOC's foreign exchange reserves have grown from $ 416 billion in 2004 to close to $ 3.7 trillion in 2015, which is the result of a consistently positive balance of payments (BOP) over the years.

As a result, in 2016, only 2.4 billion barrels of oil was discovered, against an average of 9 billion barrels per year, over the past 15 years, said the IEA.

Collectively, the Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, Scotiabank and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce earned over $ 10 billion for the three month period, a 4.4 % drop over previous year results, but a step above analyst projections.

How about the roughly 3 billion people who have died as a direct result of religious wars, sacrifices and persecutions over the last 10,000 years?

Science does explain all your questions, you just simply refuse to believe that evolution, over millions and billions of years, could result in the wonderful world we live in.

If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result of a guideless process of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems of matter and life of increasing complexity over billions of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?

This is because of the immense number of circumstantial «accidents» over billions of years that form our particular path to consciousness (including, perhaps, periodic cometary bombardment of the earth and resulting extinctions).

ROGER: The fossil record is not the result of gradual change over billions of years, but the record of the global Flood and events following it.

The fossil record is not the result of gradual change over billions of years, but the record of the global Flood and events following it.

It is estimated that the benefits of Australia's the three North Asian FTAs: Korea (KAFTA), Japan (JAEPA) and China (ChAFTA) will result in a combined $ 20 billion in extra value for the Australian industry over the next twenty years.

«Over a billion of repayments in the next five years is a devastating hit to the NHS budget - particularly at a time when budgets will be under increasing pressure as a result of Labour's economic mismanagement,» SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson said.

COCOBOD, over the past three years, awarded cocoa road contracts to the tune of GH cents 5.1 billion against a budget of GH cents 1.6 billion, resulting in excess budget of GH cents 3.5 billion.

The modification of WCB assessment criteria will eliminate the requirement for the State Insurance Fund to hold reserves for assessments; as a result, the Executive Budget proposes to direct SIF to release $ 1.75 billion in reserves to the state to support its capital plan over the next four fiscal years.

Well, I guess we know what that means: a lot of bluster about a budget that they claim will have over ten billion in cuts — and an end result that increases the budget from the previous year.

It claims over a 20 - year period the installation of smart meters could result in a net benefit of up to # 3.6 billion.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

The governor's office told the Observer that the MTA's utilization of so - called «minority and women - owned business enterprises» has increased by more than 60 percent during his time in office, resulting in more than $ 1 billion in contracts awarded to MWBEs over the past seven years — with more than $ 300 million in fiscal year 2015 - 2016 alone.

Although as a result of the 2006 court ruling the state promised in 2007 to increase education spending by $ 7 billion over a five - year period, the CFE report concluded that the state is running $ 5 billion short of what it pledged due to a recession that left it hard pressed for revenue.

As a result, the city budget for the construction of new schools was reduced to $ 3.3 billion over 10 years.

Tuesday's protests came on top of years of coordination difficulties and delay as a result of concern from native Hawaiians and environmentalists alike over construction of the $ 1.4 billion telescope on the volcano, which is already home to more than a dozen telescopes.

In this way, natural selection can create the astonishing organisms we see around us, the result of countless trillions of beneficial mutations slowly assembled over billions of years (see Mutations can only destroy information).

All told, the company says in a statement about the notorious anniversary that it has paid «over $ 3.8 billion as a result of the accident, including compensatory payments, cleanup payments, settlements and fines,» and that «the 1989 Valdez accident was one of the lowest points in ExxonMobil's 125 year history.»

As a result, the planet has shrunk in size over billions of years because of the same processes that shaped the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere and very likely that of both Mars and Venus.

They reasoned that without continual renewal, the surfaces of such bodies should have become densely covered with craters as a result of impacts by meteorites and comets over the 4.5 billion years that they have existed.

And gamma - ray bursts — thought to result from especially powerful supernovas or stellar collisions — are so rare that the researchers calculated that, over a billion years, there's only about a 1 in 3 billion chance of one killing off tardigrades.

According to their experiments, handedness may have resulted from the way that primordial biochemicals sloshed over simple rock crystals billions of years ago.

As less methane was available to to remove oxygen from the atmosphere, however, the result was a build up of oxygen over time during the subsequent «Great Oxygenation Event» (or «Great Oxidation Event») between Years 2.2 and 2.3 billion (Devin Powell, New Scientist, January 12, 2009; 2007 NASA press release; and Anbar el al, 2007).

In the dense enviroment of the Coma cluster there have probably been many galaxy mergers over billions of years, and the result is a cluster with a very low number of spiral and irregular galaxies.

These BAO measurements are beautifully complemented by the results of the SDSS - II Supernova Survey, which has provided the most precise measurements yet of cosmic expansion rates over the last four billion years.

As a result, every public school in Arizona will receive its share of an added $ 3.5 billion over the next 10 years.

JLR's global operations director, Andy Goss, says the emergence of the F - Pace is a direct result of the company's plan to spend more than # 3.5 billion (Rs 34,450 crore) a year on product development over the next few years.

JLR's global operations director, Andy Goss, says the emergence of the F - Pace is a direct result of the company's plan to spend more than # 3.5 billion a year on product development over the next few years.

All - New Genesis is the result of a 500 billion Won ($ 342 million) investment by Hyundai over a four - year period.

The all - new Genesis is the result of over four years of development and an investment of approximately 500 billion Won (KRW).

The year - end totals for 2012 e-book sales are in the books (har, har), and the results are net revenues of $ 1.54 billion ($ 1,540 M), an increase of 41 % over 2011 figures.

Over a three - year period (2010 — 2012) surveyed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated annual average of 360,400 fires resulted in an average of 2,170 deaths, 12,720 injuries, and $ 6.49 billion in property loss.

To the Warumungu tribe the Devil's Marbles (left), now renamed Karlu Karlu, are a sacred site, some say the eggs of the Rainbow Serpent: to geologists they're the result of over a billion years of erosion.

APS says that when 1,300 new solar arrays are added each month, this results in a $ 20M / year cost shift by 2020, which, over the 20 year life span of the solar arrays is $ 1 billion «cost shift.»

Since the mantle lubricates the crust - core boundary one can expect some slippage resulting in the core always rotating a little faster than the Earth over billions of years, lapping the Earth once every one or two thousand years by some estimates.

Among the economic costs climate change is expected to enact on the United States over the next 25 years are: $ 35 million in annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms, $ 12 billion a year as a result of heat wave - driven demand for electricity, and tens of billions of dollars from the corn and wheat industry due to a 14 percent drop in crop yields.

As a result, Turkey is importing electricity, and signed an agreement with its neighbor, Bulgaria, which will allow Turkey to purchase 33.7 billion kWh of electricity over the 10 - year period from 1999 to 2009.

Independent modelling commissioned by the Australian Coal Association warns that the number of early mine closures could reach 18 within nine years and result in Australia forgoing coal sales of $ 22 billion from existing mines over the next decade.