Sentences with phrase «small fragments of past»

Although they slip away so easily, these small fragments of past inform our future decisions and influence us every moment we're alive.

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The 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Mountains.

Over the past 18 months, Wall Street banks and other big institutions have been trying to muscle their way into the small - balance commercial real estate loan business, a highly fragmented slice of the market that...