Sentences with phrase «take tens of thousands»

Case in point: we tell teenagers to take tens of thousands of dollars in loans to pay for college.

But it's a material difference to take tens of thousands of documents and offer them for sale, on a bulk basis, without any compensation, or indeed any permission, from the people who wrote them.

Swings of temperature that scientists in the 1950s believed to take tens of thousands of years, in the 1970s to take thousands of years, and in the 1980s to take hundreds of years, were now found to take only decades.

The Ocean becomes more acidic as more CO2 enters it and will take tens of thousands of years to reverse these profound changes to the carbonate chemistry of the ocean (virtually certain).

Most papers don't quantify the human contribution to global warming, because it doesn't take tens of thousands of papers to establish that reality.

They say even if CO2 emissions stopped now, it would take tens of thousands of years for Arctic Ocean chemistry to...

They say even if CO2 emissions stopped now, it would take tens of thousands of years for Arctic Ocean chemistry to revert to pre-industrial levels.

It will take tens of thousands of tonnes of steel and concrete, plus a whole host of more unusual materials: beryllium, niobium, titanium and tungsten; frigid liquid nitrogen and helium.

But if the ice is stiffer than measured in the lab or it is mixed with other compounds, the process could take tens of thousands of years.

Because of the distance between the two objects, any light that left the quasar would take tens of thousands of years to reach and energise Voorwerp.

Evolutionary changes that result in speciation (IE: males and females can't reproduce together anymore) take tens of thousands of generations.

Cuomo took tens of thousands of dollars from people affiliated with Fortis [the developer who is buying LICH from the state], as we can tell, because we can't look at the PACs.

The State's Republican Party Chair is calling on two New York City top party officials accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to resign their posts.

In 1998, he was acquitted of federal charges that he took tens of thousands of dollars in payoffs from officials of a social services group.

Last week, two police officials — Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and Deputy Inspector James Grant — were charged by the feds with taking tens of thousands of dollars from two businessmen with ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio in exchange for favors, according to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Percoco is accused of having taken tens of thousands of dollars from CPV while the company won state approvals to build the $ 1 billion, 650 - megawatt plant in Wawayanda, Orange County.

Though Stavisky is not free from her own controversy, as the Observer found the incumbent and ranking member of the Committee on Higher Education to have taken tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from for - profit colleges, including one that's been involved in a bribery scandal that implicated an Assembly member from Queens in 2009.

But that would have taken tens of thousands of years, far slower than what the study found, he adds.

It may takes tens of thousands of years for oceans to recover from the acidity caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide

Our ancestors took tens of thousands of years to spread around the planet; people today move from Lubbock to Geneva or from Tamil Nadu to Texas in hours.

Given that light from IC 2497 takes tens of thousands of years to reach the Voorwerp, astronomers speculate that the quasar must have turned off less than 200,000 years ago.

Because of their distance from the host galaxy, the ghostly green structures might have taken tens of thousands of years to light up after the quasar outburst, and would likely fade tens of thousands of years after the quasar itself comes to an end, according to astronomers.

It probably took you tens of thousands of dollars to gain that expertise.

For thirty years, he had taken tens of thousands of measurements of variously shaped surfaces moving at different angles through the air using a «whirling arm,» a long pole that extended horizontally from a fixed vertical pole and spun at a preset velocity, a device originally developed to test the flight of cannonballs.

It took tens of thousands of people over seven years of constant work to build the Roman Colosseum.

In 100 to 300 years, we could produce a signal on Earth that takes tens of thousands of years to equilibrate, judging from the geologic record.»

and then you link to an article about Milankowitch cycling, which takes tens of thousands of years?

Although it takes a mere eight minutes for photons to travel from the Sun to Earth, it takes tens of thousands of years for photons to escape the Sun's core and outer layers to move freely through space — all due to how dense the sun is and how many times the photons are deflected internally before breaking free.

Not exact matches

It's been said that for a neophyte to become a master, it takes ten thousand hours of practice and work.

«Robots that cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars are cost - effective replacements for $ 3 million police helicopters and their pilots; a $ 1,000 drone can help two officers scan an area (say for a missing person) that would take ten on foot,» he said.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest in Iran, which has resulted in at least 21 deaths and hundreds arrested.

Some of these customers spent tens of thousands of dollars to have the solar panels installed, and now, with the extra costs, it will take them much longer to pay off that investment.

We thought the technology would be the easy part, but it took three dozen engineers, three years, and tens of thousands of plasma - reactor design simulations to get it right.

Meanwhile, last month marked the largest show of dissent since the fall of the Soviet Union, when tens of thousands took to the streets over alleged tampering by Putin's United Russia party with parliamentary elections.

«Basically this young aspiring photographer who moved to New York with this dream of taking ten thousand portraits,» Karp said.

And after Kiefer Sutherland took to the stage to accept the Best Action Game award for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (which the actor starred in), host Geoff Keighley explained Kojima's absence to the people who had filled the Microsoft Theater in downtown LA and the tens of thousands watching online.

Instead, it is in the control of a higher power that cruelly takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even more absurd when you consider that we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

The suicide video that Paul posted Sunday night attracted more than six million views and tens of thousands of likes before he took it down.

Critics point out that bitcoin in its present form can process just seven transactions per second, whereas a large credit - card company like Visa can comfortably take on tens of thousands.

Education has become more expensive, and those of us taking out loans do so because our families don't have tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance our education.

The same pathway that has put many in the seat of a new car — the lease — is taking off as a financial vehicle for homeowners who don't have tens of thousands of dollars sitting around to buy a rooftop solar - panel system outright.

Don't get lost with «enough»

It's been said that for a neophyte to become a master, it takes ten thousand hours of practice and work.

Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets of Johannesburg demanding Zuma to step down, especially following his firing of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.

The CrypoKitties game took the ethereum world by storm last December, as eager players bought and sold the cutesy virtual creatures for tens of thousands of dollars.

The video inspired tens of thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets in cities across Russia.

Zuckerberg estimated that this process will take months, cost «many millions of dollars,» and include at least basic analysis of the data collection from tens of thousands of apps.

«If they continue to ignore us, to only pretend to listen, then we will take action where it counts,» Delaney Tarr, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 people last month, told tens of thousands rallying in Washington.

As Malcolm Gladwell said in his book Outliers, «It takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field.»

Just take a look at the cage match they're fighting over the «Northern Gateway» pipeline, the Canadian equivalent of Keystone XL, which is going nowhere fast, thanks to steadfast opposition from First Nations (tribal) groups and tens of thousands of other citizens north of the border.

DNA being uniquely different proves evolution because tens of thousands of mutations take place during conception.