Sentences with phrase «shift over hundreds»

These plates shift over hundreds of millions of years, striking different continental configurations along the way.

But mammoths weathered many other climatic shifts over the hundreds of thousands of years they roamed Earth, Williams notes.

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.

Not exact matches

In the aftermath of the worst ice - storm Toronto has ever had (but let's not forget hard - hit smaller municipalities in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick), a virtual army of heroes has emerged — hydro workers, on 12 - hour shifts around the clock over the Christmas period, steadily restoring power to hundreds of thousands of «customers.»

On Thursday, they expressed no shortage of concerns over another plan the governor is eyeing: lowering the salaries of hundreds of thousands of residents, or more, in order to help employers fund a shift in state revenue collections to a new statewide payroll tax.

ALBANY — Republicans who control the state Senate have embraced hundreds of millions in cost shifts to New York City in their one - house budget resolution, backing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and setting up a clash with Assembly Democrats as budget talks intensify over the next three weeks.

While Gov. Cuomo has bowed to pressure over his proposed cost shifts to the city for hundreds of millions of dollars in CUNY funding, there are still several other high profile issues de Blasio, other city officials, and many around the city are keeping an eye on.

A southward shift of over a hundred kilometres was observed in only two species (common buzzard and common raven).

Fanned by winds that shifted suddenly to the east, the fallout plume spread high levels of radioactivity over an area that stretched for hundreds of kilometers and included several inhabited islands.

This gradual shift in the Sahara's overall climate contradicts a common theory that the region dried rapidly over a few hundred years, and provides clues about a potential re-greening triggered by global warming, Kröpelin says.

We do not mind discussing journeys of a few centuries but over a hundred thousand years is a true «paradigm shift.»

A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate - tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for climatic shifts from hot to cold over tens and hundreds of millions of years throughout much of Earth's history.

This slight shift in thinking will save you hundreds of calories over the week, which will result in weight loss over time.

In a history of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century of violence: the two world wars and hundreds of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the world.

Volkswagen's new Roadmap E underlines a seismic shift that is happening to the auto industry which is rapidly evolving to keep pace with a worldwide erosion of the equity that petrol and diesel powered vehicles have enjoyed for over a hundred years now.

And let's not forget the staff and volunteers who have been working overtime and extra shifts to help provide care for the many great shelter animals and for stepping it up one more time to process the hundreds of adoptions, totaling 221 animals over the last two days.

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Despite these material similarities, the sculptures on view embody dramatically shifting attitudes, some profoundly disturbing, toward gender, race, class, sexuality, and religion over seven hundred years.

These cultural shifts in society fascinated Raymond Williams, who in 1976 published the seminal book, Keywords — a vocabulary of culture and society, in which he analysed the use and meanings of over a hundred words such as anarchism, originality, genius and democracy.

That's an important shift,» she said, and then dispatched us all to the preview: eighty - five galleries, thirty - four countries, over five hundred artists («half of them women,» she said, «which is indicative of the art world here and in the region»), and some forty to forty - five million dollars in art for sale.

Over one hundred additional works from the Scull collection are illustrated in the 288 - page catalogue that features Judith Goldman's revelatory narrative, based on hitherto unpublished sources, of the dramas that accompanied Robert and Ethel Scull's ever - shifting relationships with artists, dealers, the press and each other.

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.

That demographic shift has also brought hundreds of thousands of relative newcomers to a region where long stretches of days over 100 degrees are the norm, he said, exacerbating the health threat unless people learn how to cope, and particularly drink far more water they might think necessary.

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined an estimated 2,300 marches and actions in 175 countries over the weekend, demanding that the heads of state and negotiators in Paris pull together a strong deal to fight global warming — and fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground and shift to 100 percent clean energy.

«HOWEVER, it turns out that Reneweconomy, in its zeal to promote new power sources, shifted the goalposts so that the battery output was exaggerated over one hundred fold.

Models have long suggested that Earth's orbit shifts from circular to elliptical and back again over hundreds of thousands of years, which plays a part in natural climate swings.

Over very long time periods (hundreds of millions of years), a tectonic uplift can significantly alter their major elements, such as the jet stream, and plate tectonics may shift ocean currents.