Sentences with phrase «over millions of years ago»

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Valued at just US$ 12 million six years ago, Twitter had a market cap of over US$ 40 billion at one point in December.

The hearing wrapped up about a half hour ago (you can watch it on C - SPAN), but Senators skeptical of his nomination questioned Gottlieb's close financial ties to the health care and biopharma industries, which have paid him millions in speaking and consulting fees over the years.

Misfire: LinkedIn reported revenue of $ 638 million, a 35 % increase over a year ago.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

That means that one third of Instagram's 600 million users now use Stories, which was introduced just over a year ago.

Cigna Corp. posted higher profit and revenue in the first quarter of 2018 as it grew premiums and membership in its commercial employer business.The Bloomfield, Conn. - based health insurer recorded net income of $ 917 million in the three months ended March 31, up 54.6 % over the same period a year ago.

Net income for the quarter rose to $ 183,000 from a net loss of $ 11 million in the same quarter a year ago as advertising revenue rose 125 percent year over year to $ 226 million and data licensing and other revenues rose 76 percent to $ 24 million.

With over 100 million users a year ago, PayTM was already ahead of its digital payment competitors before the Nov. 2016 demonetization of high value currency notes in India.

When asked what causes hunger she replied: «There are many different causes of why people are hungry across the globe» but regarding the Kasai province, it is «because of conflict - the violence erupted about a year ago and over 1.4 million people had to flee from their homes».

everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

Presiding over the event will be a mutilated Christ statue rescued from a bombed - out church 15 years ago - perhaps the most powerful reminder of the senseless political violence that left more than 250,000 people dead and millions displaced.

I preach unorthodox, even heretical sermons fairly often, and, three years ago, the board took the results of the sale of some property, over a million dollars, and set the proceeds aside... for the meeting of human need in this city.

«If the earth formed over four billion years ago, all helium should have escaped from zircons, yet the crystals are loaded with this element» «The atmosphere should be full of helium atoms, the byproducts of millions of years of radioisotope decay, but it isn't.»

For just one example, the number of persons in mental hospitals — over a quarter - million, seven years ago — has been cut in half over the past six years.

The incidence of consumers ordering food described on the menu as «gluten - free» or «wheat - free» has grown over time and is now more than double what it was four years ago — accounting for more than 200 million restaurant visits in the past year, NPD reports.

Maybe Arsene Wenger will not be looking at the summer transfer of Yohan Cabaye to Arsenal as a cut - price deal, but I am fairly sure that his current club Paris Saint - Germain will after they paid almost # 20 million for the France international midfielder a little over a year ago.

And if he decides against opting out of his deal because the market for corner bats has potentially dried up, well, the Angels could do a lot worse than $ 88.5 million spread out over four years for a guy who can actually hit and just turned 30 days ago.

Same old Wnger same old Arsenal scared of spending too much on a flop, but he not dome that with a number over the years I mean how many sanogo's have we had and why keep Diaby on wages that have added up to millions when it was clear years ago that he was never ever going to stay fit!!

Formed over 45 million years ago, Baltic amber is an organic substance, a «fossil resin» produced by pine trees which grew in Northern Europe - from southern regions of the present day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea.

«The district will carry on the tradition of beautiful flower displays that he established over 50 years ago, which included over 2 million plants.»

NOTE on BASIC ASSUMPTIONS: When I write about parenting, I assume the importance of the evolved developmental niche (EDN) for raising human infants (which initially arose over 30 million years ago with the emergence of the social mammals and has been slightly altered among human groups based on anthropological research).

Baltic Amber is fossilized tree resin of ancient pine trees that grew over 50 million years ago in Northern Europe on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

When Sanlam bought 40 %, it was worth only 21 million dollars 4 years ago over 4 years Enterprise Insurance has now grown to the extent that its share 40 % of its value is almost 3, 7 times an increase, is that possible?»

In April, the Democrats reported having $ 1.5 million worth of debt left over from two years ago when they lost control of the chamber.

Suffolk County has agreed to pay $ 1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a 17 - year - old girl who was killed in a car crash involving two police officers nearly a decade ago.

The Town of Tonawanda didn't shut its doors after its biggest taxpayer, the Huntley Power Plant, closed just over a year ago, eliminating 79 jobs and nearly $ 6 million a year in property tax revenue.

The fundraising arm of the Senate Republican conference will report raising $ 1.1 million over the last two weeks — a rate that is double the amount of cash raise during the same time two years ago, according to a source familiar with the filing.

«Let's be clear, Ali has no plans on taking money advice from someone who consistently fails to pay his own taxes but if he wants to look at connections, let's look at the fact that Murphy was elected only two years ago after taking over a million dollars from convicted felon Dean Skelos to help him join Albany's culture of corruption.

NYC will pay more than $ 2.25 million to settle a lawsuit over the controversial fatal shooting of an unarmed Brooklyn man by an undercover NYPD narcotics detective five years ago.

Since the assembly was suspended three and a half years ago over allegations of an IRA spy ring, it has cost # 78 million to maintain, a situation that the British government has insisted can not continue.

The start of the school year also brings the start of free school meals for all the 1.9 million children in infant classes (the first three years of school) in England, at a cost of # 1bn over two years; a policy Clegg announced a year ago at the Lib Dem party conference.

Several years ago Schneiderman donated over $ 100,000.00 from his campaign finance account to charity after Moses Stern, who defrauded Citibank out of millions of dollars, alleged that he was the source of funding for contributions to Schneiderman through the use of straw donors, which is a felony on the federal level.

Over 55 million years ago, in the lush rainforests of what is now east Asia, a new voice was heard in the animal chorus: the cry of the first primate.

By comparing the genomes of 203 vertebrates, they first traced the origin of KZFPs back to a common ancestor of tetrapods (four - legged animals) and coelacanth, a fish that evolved over 400 million years ago.

But the description also matches Earth a little over 3 million years ago, in the middle of the geologic epoch known as the Pliocene.

«The turtle shell is a complex structure whose initial transformations started over 260 million years ago in the Permian period,» says Tyler Lyson of Yale University and the Smithsonian.

These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago.

Bowen and colleagues report that carbonate or limestone nodules in Wyoming sediment cores show the global warming episode 55.5 million to 55.3 million years ago involved the average annual release of a minimum of 0.9 petagrams (1.98 trillion pounds) of carbon to the atmosphere, and probably much more over shorter periods.

To properly age and classify the Mongolian fossil Maelestes gobiensis, estimated to be between 71 million and 75 million years old, Wible and his team compared it with 409 features culled from the skulls, teeth and skeletal remains of other animals ranging in age from present - day mammals to those estimated to have lived over 100 million years ago.

Doing the next best thing to taking the temperature of a Tyrannosaurus rex, a pair of scientists in the US have calculated how heat was distributed over the body of the creature when it was roaming the Earth 67 million years ago.

Sixty - five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth.

Two new studies indicate that at least some of the 2 million cubic kilometres of lava which spread over parts of Siberia 250 million years ago came from the lower mantle, up to 2900 kilometres below the Earth's surface, and a small fraction may even have come from the core itself.

The rocks of the Karoo, deposited over a very long period from 300 - 180 million years ago, are internationally renowned for their wealth of fossils, particularly of therapsid reptiles which are the distant ancestors of mammals.

Denisovans also harbor a small amount of especially exotic DNA, probably from breeding with «super-archaic» humans that split from the others over 1 million years ago.

Jan Kramers at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and his colleagues think the rock is instead a piece of a comet that exploded over the desert 28 million years ago.

~ 77.8 million years ago), which possesses a flat paddle - shaped nasal crest projecting back over the top of its skull.

Millions of years ago, a mountain range that would have dwarfed the Andes mountains in South America, stretched over what is currently the southern-most tip of Africa.

The well - known Australopithecus afarensis fossil we call Lucy, for example, lived a little over 3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, roughly 700 miles northeast of Lake Turkana.