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

The deposits were formed over hundreds of thousands of years in the past, when the sea level was much lower and areas now under the ocean were exposed to rainfall which was absorbed into the underlying water table.

To get an idea of what might be in store for the future, Vaks and his colleagues searched for evidence from the distant past — specifically, from stalagmites and stalactites formed over hundreds of thousands of years in underground Siberian caves.

Not exact matches

I've observed hundreds, maybe thousands, of people over the years and hear from new ones practically every day who, like those unfortunate chefs, insist on living in a utopian, make - believe world where:

So, along with Memorial Sloan Kettering, Grail plans on following hundreds of thousands of patients over the next few years and trying to see if they can detect CTDNA in those patients whenever they develop cancer.

Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunity to travel in over 30 countries, meet thousands of people and train hundreds of thousands of peoOver the past 15 years, I have had the opportunity to travel in over 30 countries, meet thousands of people and train hundreds of thousands of peoover 30 countries, meet thousands of people and train hundreds of thousands of people.

Over the last 15 years, I have discovered valuable secrets about the publishing industry that have helped me in writing my own books — secrets that have then helped me to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of those books.

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.

Because of the power of compound interest, a single 1 % difference in fees can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years.

People who make in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars a year or just over $ 1 million a year could see the biggest benefits.

In fact, a variance of that size could mean hundreds of thousands in lost gains over 30 yearIn fact, a variance of that size could mean hundreds of thousands in lost gains over 30 yearin lost gains over 30 years.

The major religions we see in the world today have evolved over hundreds or thousands of years, but they most follow the pattern I described, so for the most part they all involve some form of worship, the concepts of rewards, punishments, and obedience, and so on.

When I hear the expression, «God is in control,» I tend to think about the Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in 2004, the countless women who have been raped in the Congo over the last few days, and the many children who will die of hunger and preventable disease this year.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Christianity believes in the One True God that guarded over the ancient jews and their ancestors the hebrew an their ancestors the Israelites and their ancestors the Arbrahamic people and their ancestors the Semites, and their ancestors the Table of Nations geneology and through his true prophets foretold Jesus» coming thousands to hundreds of years in advance with Jesus fulfilling over 300 + prophecies and confirming himself to be the One True God in the flesh to offer the final contract with all of humanity.

The difference is I lived in a very religious setting when I was young, went to a private school, and what I said was from first hand experience over 11 years with hundreds perhaps thousands of children going through the same thing.

You know nothing of the afterlife, only of words written by MEN, lost in translation over hundreds and thousands of years.

Last year marked a twenty year high in vocations to the priesthood, a resurgence of women --- young women --- accepting the call to religious religious life, and a major report in October found that there are an abundance of (over six - hundred thousand) Catholic men and women who are potential priests and sisters.

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.

I've been actively involved in bookmaking for over fifteen years and it's true that I've seen players make hundreds of thousands of dollars in teaser plays when they don't know what they're buying.

Never had an accident in more than 25 years and hundreds of thousands of miles driven, got one ticket for passing back when she was 16, but has never been pulled over even since (learned her lesson, although to be fair, the place she got a ticket was deceptive).

Other groups acknowledged included The Children's Guild, for their commitment to being positive role models for the children living in residential care at Five Acres and the La Canada Junior Women's Club, who, over the last 45 years has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local organizations, including Five Acres.

When we have a Pakistani diaspora of over one million people, and there are hundreds of thousands of journeys between our countries every year, what goes on in Pakistan matters on the streets of Britain.

Over two thousand four hundred (2,400) delegates of the Convention People's Party (CPP) are expected to converge on the Trade Fair Center in Accra for a National Delegates Congress to elect a new Presidential Candidate for the upcoming General elections in November this year.

At sentencing in Manhattan federal court, Weiner attorney Arlo Devlin - Brown said his client likely exchanged thousands of messages with hundreds of women over the years and was communicating with up to 19 women when he encountered the teenager.

«There's a reason why the teachers» union has spent $ 60 million in Albany over the past five years: to get politicians like Andrea Stewart - Cousins to put their interests over the hundreds of thousands of kids victimized by a failing system.

Today's announcement, in advance of this weekend's roving patrol blitz, is a warning to those who ignore the sad lessons of the DWI crashes that have claimed hundreds of lives and hurt thousands in Erie County over the years.

And I believe that will mean net migration to this country will be in the order of tens of thousands each year, not the hundreds of thousands every year that we have seen over the last decade.

In a year where the Reform Party of New York endorsed over two thousand candidates, the Reform Party line also supplied the margin of victory to hundreds of winning candidates.

«Last year we spent well over a hundred two hundred thousand dollars just ourselves the county in paying AMC to take care of our inmates.

Jerry Donnellan helped Megan Leavey the same way he has helped hundreds, maybe thousands, of veterans in Rockland over the years he led the Rockland Veterans Service Agency.

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.

In fact it's a tight collection of several hundred thousand stars, most of which are packed into a ball just a few light - years across (though the whole object is over 100 light - years in diameterIn fact it's a tight collection of several hundred thousand stars, most of which are packed into a ball just a few light - years across (though the whole object is over 100 light - years in diameterin diameter).

Over hundreds of thousands of years, the Neandertal lineage developed successfully in western Eurasia and survived severe fluctuations between colder and warmer climactic cycles of the Ice Age.

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.

In Colorado, for instance, state and federal fisheries experts were recently spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year over five years to restore populations of a threatened subspecies of trout, the greenback cutthroat.

The unique detective skills of the female sexual brain were honed over hundreds of thousands of years of sleuthing, investigating the character of sneaky, aggressive men in an extraordinary variety of contexts.

Populations that preceded H. sapiens likely reached India and developed regional versions of Middle Paleolithic tools over several hundred thousand years, says archaeologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

And if you manage to hang on and establish a career in science — and probably even if you don't — you'll give versions of this talk hundreds, maybe thousands of times over the next 30 to 40 years.

Humanity has now raised global CO2 levels by more than the rise from roughly 180 to 260 ppm at the end of the last ice age, albeit in a few hundred years rather than over more than a few thousand years.

«There are very few examples in the galaxy of this process in action because this phase is short - lived, perhaps lasting only a hundred thousand years, while the timescale over which a resulting disk is visible could be only ten thousand years or less.»

The relatively low speed — between 6 and 7 meters per second — suggests the process must have taken place over thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years before the asteroid was formed, when a gravitationally stable cloud of debris spun in the disk of material that would go on to build the solar system.

It can also reverse in polarity over hundreds of thousands of 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.

He and climate scientist Johannes Feldmann, also of the Potsdam climate center, wanted to examine how the destabilization would progress in the longer term, over hundreds to thousands of years.

Over thousands of years, the calcium phosphate in an animal's skeleton combines with other minerals in the ground, forming fossils that can survive for hundreds of millions of years.

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.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, a river's sand and silt flow toward the coast, ultimately piling up at a river's mouth in the form of a low - lying delta.

Over the last seven years, his team has sampled thousands of animals at hundreds of sites, across some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.

The team suspects that some of the pockets in these gullies might have held water in various forms in the recent past, over the last few hundreds of thousands of years, periodically harboring snow and ice when the conditions were right.

Severinghaus discovered that xenon and krypton are well preserved in ice cores, which provides the temperature information that can then be used by scientists studying many other aspects of the earth's oceans and atmosphere over hundreds of thousands of years.