Sentences with phrase «over hundreds of years»

The Pit Bull breed has evolved over hundreds of years to be a worker and is well suited to most any task requiring strength, agility, and intelligence.

If «global warming» did happen coral would easily adapt to the slight warming that took place over hundreds of years.

These changes have occurred over hundreds of years but have become particularly rapid over the last decades.

We've adapted our crops for each location over hundreds of years of genetic engineering, and I suspect farmers continue to do this year over year in real time as the climate changes.

Both are well known to be accurate to fractions of a degree over hundreds of years.

Scientists thought ice sheets and glaciers would respond to warming slowly over hundreds of years.

Such a temperature rise could raise sea levels by tens of meters over hundreds of years.

The art of making quality furniture has been refined over hundreds of years and we know of no better way to do it.

Ireland has a strong tradition of crafts, successfully handed down over hundreds of years with emphasis on natural fabrics.

It was compiled over hundreds of years after the supposed death and resurrection of Jesus by various religious authorities, translated, retranslated, revised and modified thereafter on an ongoing basis.

Attack of the 50 Foot Magic Underwear It was compiled over hundreds of years after the supposed death and resurrection of Jesus by various religious authorities, translated, retranslated, revised and modified thereafter on an ongoing basis.

Now we are reaching back to a 2,000 year old historic figure whose words have been interpreted, mis - interpreted and re-interpreted and then written down by, essentially, strangers over hundreds of years for direction?

And I think it's a book written by men, translated many times over hundreds of years by other men, and as far removed from the word of any actual god as can be.

While respecting the strong tradition built over hundreds of years, ingredients in Stratton's rice dishes will range beyond basic versions of Spanish paella that are most familiar to American diners.

After lunch they heard their new leader say: «We must always remember that British liberties were hard fought and hard won over hundreds of years... too often we seemed casual about them.»

Either way, the data show that the January tremor did not release all the stress that has accumulated in the fault system over hundreds of years.

These rats have been bred for favorable qualities, much like how dogs have been domesticated from wolves over hundreds of years.

Pointing his camera straight down at the ancient, grimy surface of the streets, which are composed of a patchwork of fragments accumulated over hundreds of years, Marclay utilizes the trash and debris to create a choreography of moving shapes that dance across the surface of the screen.

These dogs were SELECTIVELY - BRED over hundreds of years to be KILLERS.

Multiple dimensions — solid math in theoretical physics explaining every experimental data that has ever been gathered in relation to physics Evolution — theory based off data collected over hundreds of years and observations that add credence to the theory ID — ignoring data that has been collected over the past few hundred years and jumping to a conclusion based off a book that has been proven false many times before (no global flood etc etc.).

The Bible was written over hundreds of years by 40 different authors.

That would be the book written by dozens of authors over hundreds of years, edited and reassembled in differing forms with different content countless times, not to mention translated with all the inconsistencies in connotation that entails.

God is doing something to shake up His Church and the Body — He's using a remnant to do it — and in many cases, it looks nothing like what «church» has been made to look like over hundreds of years.

Anyone who has been subjected to the relentless barrage of form critics (those who believe the gospels were corrupted by oral transmission and politics over hundreds of years), will find this work a welcome perspective!

I finally had to admit that the Bible must be a diverse collection of the writings of different writers over hundreds of years, and there was no way, and in fact it was unfair, to force them into a harmonious and singular message.

Guys — the book written by my apostles was written and rewritten over hundreds of years... by humans.

This byway offers archaeological sites that have survived over hundreds of years.

Instead of focusing on what an individual politician says, we can assess millions of speeches over hundreds of years to show how political language changes over time, or how a specific kind of contentious issue develops.

«There is no doubt that warming tropical ocean temperatures over the last 50 years is mostly caused by human activity,» said Osterberg, «a really interesting question is when you go back over hundreds of years, how much of that is anthropogenic?»

Furthermore, genes are reliably passed from one generation to another: Schrödinger explained to his audience that a well - known characteristic such as the Hapsburg, or Habsburg, lip — the protruding lower jaw shown by members of the House of Hapsburg — can be tracked over hundreds of years, without apparently changing.

The tree rings show that after the empire's initial expansion, Mongolia's weather turned back to its more normal dryness and cold, though with many ups and downs over the hundreds of years since.

In Britain, democracy evolved steadily over hundreds of years.

-- and by the time Darwin got there, it was generally agreed that the shelves were actually ancient beaches, each formed over hundreds of years when the glen had contained a lake — a lake that for some reason had stood at three different levels on three different multicentury occasions.

«History tells us that ponds tend to enlarge over hundreds of years and eventually become lakes; ponds shape much of this landscape in the long run, and with no ponds there will be no lakes for this region.»

These foods, though nauseating to most of pop culture, have been eaten by our ancestors for well over hundreds of years.

Western herbalists refer to the Materia Medica, which contains A-Z of all herbs used over hundreds of years.

There were no double - blinded, placebo - controlled studies enrolling thousands of university patients but rather spoken tradition, passed down, grandmother to grandmother over hundreds of years.

Another might create a map of the world, using software that animates at the click of a mouse to show political boundaries swelling, shrinking, and shifting over hundreds of years.

The Ascent Of Money is a great look at the history of our capital markets and their evolution over hundreds of years.

Superstitions around black cats have lasted over hundreds of years!

Helpers to the semi-nomadic Sami people of Lapland, Lappies evolved along with the Sami from hunters to reindeer herders over hundreds of years.

Over hundreds of years Siberians became the farmer and woodsman's ally - keeping rodents at bay and even providing company.

The water in many of these pools has been filtered naturally by the earth over hundreds of years - and in some cases, is so clear that you can see clearly all the way to the bottom.