Sentences with phrase «over hundreds of thousands of years as»

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south - east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast.

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As for the thousands of other apps that have plugged into Facebook over the years, the number of affected users could easily be in the hundreds of millions.

Over the years I have written and spoken hundreds of thousands of words about the importance of the credibility statement, more commonly known as your interest - creating opening statement.

Just out of curiosity... if Bin Laden has gone to hell, where are the rest of us Americans going who stood by and watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqs were killed over the last eight years, as well as numerous Afganies I'm sure.

Such as how many hundreds of thousands of women, and children are feed each year through the"www.samaritanspurse.org One of many organisation over the years started by either, Billy, or his son Franklin.

1) Ten years without a significant trophy yet the Manager is never questioned 2) Selling off key «World beater» Players season after season and replacing them with mediocre at best replacements 3) Keeping a 33 % shareholder who is one of the world's richest men AND a true football fan as far away from the board as possible 4) Charging possibly the highest prices in Europe but NOT reinvesting within the team in any really significant way 5) Classing 4th place in the EPL as a trophy 6) Boasting of a # 100 million war chest for transfers then quibbling over a few hundred thousand on deals.

As a parent of three, I've lost hundreds, possibly thousands, of hours of sleep over the years.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

The extinction at the end of the Permian is thought to have been caused by volcanic eruptions in Siberia over hundreds of thousands if not a million years that produced what are known today as the Siberian Traps: lava fields covering much of northern Russia and originally encompassing nearly 3 million square miles with an average thickness of about 1,000 feet.

Sedimentary rock layers provide a more compressed view of climate, as each layer of sediment is made over a period of hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

Prasher and Chalfie were awarded a patent for the use of GFP as a marker of gene expression; in total, it earned Prasher just a few hundred thousand dollars in royalties over 15 years.

Once released through combustion, it remains in the atmosphere for hundreds, even thousands, of years and continues its job as a driver of global warming over a long period of time.

More recent studies, however, have found evidence of speedy evolutionary change in animals — as well as hundreds of changes in the human genome that appeared within tens of thousands, rather than over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

Evolution is typically thought of as a process that occurs over hundreds or thousands of years, but this doesn't mean that we can not observe genetic changes as they develop.

You see, as a Certified Nutrition Specialist & Certified Personal Trainer, I've trained hundreds of women over the last 10 years in person... and that doesn't even count the thousands of women that have used my programs online over the last few years since I've become an internationally recognized fitness expert.

The hundreds of thousands of users since 2000 and the large body of research collected over the last 50 years can only be described as life - changing.

As a result, over the next 11 years the statewide average of students receiving special education and related services decreased from 13 % to 8.5 %, resulting in hundreds of thousands of children being denied special education services.

The programme, available as paper worksheets, webgames and as an app, has very successfully boosted times tables recall speed for hundreds of thousands of pupils over the last 7 years in over 5,000 schools - both primary and secondary - worldwide.

As head of ConnCAT, Clemons» compensation package is well over one hundred thousand dollars a year.

Before you dismiss the Evoque as hardly a Land Rover, remember that the poky crossover has been very, very good to the company — selling in the hundreds of thousands over the last six years.

As a book publicist, I've booked hundreds, if not thousands, of interviews for authors over the years.

At one point, we were about a hundred miles off the coast of New York City when we drifted over a place known to scientists as the Hudson Canyon, which is where the Hudson River used to drop over the continental shelf twenty thousand years ago when seas were lower.

Also known as Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), they have helped hundreds of thousands of seniors improve their retirement, and over the years they have become one of the safest mortgage products available.

As the founder and former director of the Hooved Animal Humane Society (HAHS), Donna has over forty years of experience in rescuing hundreds of horses and contributing to the rehabilitation of thousands more.

Also known as dog flu, this highly contagious infection has affected thousands of dogs all over the country, with hundreds of cases reported within just the past year.

Arguably your cash back might feel like a drop in the bucket as you're staring down tens of thousands of dollars in loans, but a few hundred dollars extra per year toward those huge balances will make a dent over time.

Over the last year of its lifetime, Crusader Kings II is still averaging over a hundred thousand monthly active users on Steam — a clear sign that a vast audience is still finding something special in what has sometimes been seen as a «niche» tiOver the last year of its lifetime, Crusader Kings II is still averaging over a hundred thousand monthly active users on Steam — a clear sign that a vast audience is still finding something special in what has sometimes been seen as a «niche» tiover a hundred thousand monthly active users on Steam — a clear sign that a vast audience is still finding something special in what has sometimes been seen as a «niche» title.

Occupying every gallery in the new building, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the exhibition comprises over two hundred works of art in a wide range of media, as well as scientific illustrations and architectural drawings and models, made over the past two thousand years.

Over the four years that May operated, hundreds of people volunteered and participated as board members to help produce the astounding and consistently awe - inspiring immersive exhibitions, which thousands of visitors from around the world viewed and participated in.

Conceived as a public art project in Norway, Paterson has planted one thousand trees in a forest outside of Oslo, which will grow over the next hundred years before being cut down and providing the paper for an anthology of books that will be printed and read in the year 2114.

Sculpture as Place, 1958 — 2010, a show organised by Dia Art Foundation in association with the Museo Reina Sofía, is the first retrospective on the artist to look over the fifty years of his output, yielding over two thousand sculptures and a similar number of poems, dozens of hard - to - classify objects and hundreds of postcards.

Unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases (at least over the last few hundred thousand years) continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and the global climate (land surface, ocean, glaciers, stratosphere) continues to respond as predicted by theory and models.

It features some of the most dramatic and rapid climate shifts in Earth's history, as well as tenacious scientists braving the hostile ice and snows of Greenland and Antarctica for years on end to bring home that most precious material: kilometre - long cores of ancient ice, dating back over a hundred thousand years.

Rather, excess CO2 returns toward baseline at a multitude a different rates, with chemical equilibration in the ocean occurring over decades (depending on depth), ocean carbonate buffering through sediment dissolution requiring centuries to millennia, and eventual restoration of carbonate sediment levels by terrestrial weathering occurring over hundreds of thousands of years — a long «tail» that can account for as much as 20 to 40 percent of CO2 excess in the estimates described by David Archer et al in CO2 Atmospheric Lifetimes.

Problem being that the huge influx of anthropogenic CO2 has pretty much overwhelmed this negative feedback process as it occurs over thousands and tens of thousands of years, and we'll have doubled CO2 in just a few hundred years.

As Don Easterbrook and others note, hardly a significant length in temperatures that can cycle over hundreds and even thousands of years, caused by either solar input changes or circulations within the oceans.

Only one of the past «Big Five» mass extinctions (the dinosaur extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous) is thought to have occurred as rapidly as would be the case if currently observed extinctions rates were to continue at their present high rate (Alvarez et al., 1980; Barnosky et al., 2011; Robertson et al., 2004; Schulte et al., 2010), but the minimal span of time over which past mass extinctions actually took place is impossible to determine, because geological dating typically has error bars of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

To respond to Steve — you don't give us all the figures (understandably), but over ten years as a landlord with an unspecified number of units, you likely had hundreds of thousands of dollars in gross rental income.

As for the thousands of other apps that have plugged into Facebook over the years, the number of affected users could easily be in the hundreds of millions.

As part of an extensive housecleaning operation, Apple has over the past year removed hundreds of thousands of clones, 32 - bit titles, spamware and other software from the App Store ahead of this fall's iOS 11 launch.

The rush to the bottom of the Realtor well of irrelevancy is well underway (pun intended) thanks to what I label as the unrecognized psychology of the self - serving communal thinking practices of Organized Real Estate top level comfortably - salaried bureaucrats (not the here today, gone next year regularly turned over faux president puppets), who, because they are in perpetual positions of conflict of interest (more dues from more registrants equals more money for their in - house empires, which thus creates more guaranteed money for them personally and thence for their underling cronies which in turn leads to a solidification of their own top jobs as well as for their underlings» jobs over whom «they» need to be seen as being in control of... which is as usual job one) do what is best for themselves first, in order to avoid becoming being viewed as being redundant in the eyes of their tax - payers... the one - hundred thousand plus Canada - wide money - supplying whether - they - know - what - they - are - doing - or - not registrants.

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