Sentences with phrase «reached greater extents»

But some time around 850,000 years ago, the cycle grew to 100,000 years, and ice sheets reached greater extents than they had in several million years — a change too great to be explained by orbital variation alone.

Doliche reached its greatest extent later, in the Roman and early Byzantine periods.»

Glaciers reached their greatest extent during the Little Ice Age 150 years ago.

They reached their greatest extent in the mid-1800s, about double what they are now.

Not exact matches

Theologians in recent years have reinstated the reality and seriousness of sin, but as far as I have been able to observe this mood has not yet to any great extent reached the churches.

One of the most notable things about the four sides that have made it to this season's semi-finals is that all four have, to a greater or lesser extent, deployed formations and tactical systems that they do not use in domestic competition in order to reach the last four.

The propriety of these distinctions, is explained by the nature of the senatorial trust; which, requiring greater extent of information and stability of character, requires, at the same time, that the senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages.

Now that the submitted proposals have reached a critical mass, the agency wants to «make sure that the projects they are funding are actually proceeding as expected, and that they are able to capture to some extent the great research and educational developments that are bubbling up,» said Mark Milutinovich, director of the Research Competitiveness Program.

To a great extent, the reef is entirely uncharted and can be easily reached by boat.

A video of the opening trailer and a website is great and all, but if that's the extent of your reach to the general audience, then I am truly disgusted at what the future might bring to this game in the west.

The spread of Outlook contributions suggests about a 29 % chance of reaching a new September sea ice minimum in 2010 and only an 18 % chance of an extent greater than the 2009 minimum (or a return to the long - term trend for summer sea ice loss).

Ice cover in the Arctic reached its fifth - lowest level since 1978; in the south, ice in the Antarctic receded to the fourth - greatest extent since measurements started 36 years ago.

Though the extent of one's reach and the fruits of one's labor may be greater networking online than offline.