Sentences with phrase «thousands to millions»

Over hundreds of thousands to millions of years, the change in gene frequency has altered the physical aspects of the species as a whole.

Life insurance coverage amounts can range from thousands to millions of dollars, helping your loved ones remain financially stable in the event of your death.

Nor will I pay capital gains on the hundreds of additional thousands to millions in gains I make before turning 60.

Some stars are alone in the sky, others have companions (binary stars) and some are part of large clusters containing thousands to millions of stars.

That was to make a living as a full - time author and become a # 1 bestseller and sell thousands to millions of copies of books.

The paper discusses reconstructions of global deep ocean temperature, sea level, surface temperature, and climate sensitivity going back thousands to millions of years.

He does commission sculptures ranging from thousands to millions.

We have a history of maintaining a high success rate with settlements ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for our clients.

Furthermore, the olfactory bulb in a dog has a large number of smell - sensitive receptors, which range between 125 to 220 million, and it is a hundred thousand to a million times more reactive than that of humans.

These microscopes bathe cells with light thousands to millions of times more intense than the desert sun, Betzig says.

a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence

Lowenstein studies water droplets that have been sealed inside salt crystals for thousands to millions of years.

Inventories such as the deep ocean, sediments and rocks, on the other hand, store huge amounts of carbon accumulated over thousands to millions of years, but the fluxes of carbon in these reservoirs are comparatively very slow and occur via processes such as sedimentation and volcanic eruptions.

Ideally machines will one day be able to consider thousands to millions of data points from one patient in order to definitively answer the question, «does this individual need heart surgery?»

With this method, you'll produce an extraordinary piece of content, syndicate it, and hope it goes viral, getting shared by thousands to millions of people.

Drug discovery and development has historically been a trial - and - error approach whereby companies screen thousands to millions of compounds.

When a photon leaves the photosphere thousands to millions of years later, it carries that momentum with it.

When these particles collide at these velocities, they create micro-explosions with temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the sun that produce showers of thousands to millions sub-atomic particles which rapidly decay into even more daughter particles.

What Nature takes thousands to millions of years to accomplish, humans can do so in hundreds of years and it will speed up even faster once our Sun «wakes up».

A considerable part of the solar UV is not thermal, i.e. it is not the tail end of a black body spectrum emitted from the photosphere, but is emitted much higher up in the Chromosphere and Corona, which are heated by magnetic activity and have temperatures of hundreds of thousands to millions K.

The first is super-high throughput, which allows thousands to millions of transactions to be conducted per second.

Warehouses store goods and materials worth thousands to millions in value and hence, warehouse workers are required to manage these goods, maintain inventory.

The rush of Brokerages built from 1985 - 2005 that will be coming to market before 2020 with be of historic numbers but generally they will be purchased for $ 100s of thousands to Millions less than what they could have sold for in 2010.

McDonald's has gone from serving thousands to millions to billions worldwide.

These microscopes bathe cells with light thousands to millions of times more intense than the desert sun, says Betzig — damaging or killing the organism being studied.

Other specialized blood tests that detect DNA of the organism, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence and serologythe scientific study or diagnostic examination of blood serum, especially with regard to the response of the immune system to pathogens or introduced substances, are helpful.

IOVATION BLOG - Sep 21 - For online retailers whose business models rely on Internet transactions to generate revenue, fraud losses that range anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of dollars a year can have a significant impact on their overall business profits.

Venture Capital — Also called VC, generally involves large investments (hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars) and carries significant risk, as the companies targeted for investment may be untested in the market or associated with a novel technology

The video — which in a few days has gone from hundreds of views to thousands to millions — shows Jefferson Bethke, who lives in the Seattle area, delivering a well - crafted, sharply produced, spoken word poem.

Sedimentary rock layers provide a more compressed view of climate, as each layer of sediment is made over a period of hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

The clusters are tight knots of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit around galactic centers like moths around a streetlamp.

Thousands to millions of years later, these elements combined with silicates in the moon's mantle to form plagioclase feldspars, which eventually moved to the surface and formed the moon's crust, said Roy.

A civilization like ours growing at a modest 1 to 2 percent per year could make the leap to a Type I civilization in a century or so, to a Type II in a few thousand years, and to a Type III in a hundred thousand to a million years.

Instead, we combine the activity of thousands to millions of neurons to ensure a more accurate message, which makes effective communication amongst large populations of neurons a central feature of the brain.

«We know of objects in our own galaxy that can produce repeated bursts, but they are thousands to millions of times less powerful than the bursts we are seeing,» says Andrew Fruchter of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

I think it's really exciting to be able to record this motion that's a thousand to a million times faster than anything that happens in your computer, a motion that happens on a length scale of atoms — the angstrom length scale.

Even long - term climate cycles are short relative to geologic time, where «we're talking about hundreds of thousands to millions of years for plate tectonics,» Olive says.

For objects bigger than 1 centimetre, the estimates are frightening: there are anything from hundreds of thousands to millions of them, mostly in unknown orbits and each capable of smashing a satellite to smithereens.

A cheaper alternative, called polymer pen lithography (PPL), uses arrays of thousands to millions of tiny polymer pyramids essentially as quills to inscribe different materials onto a surface.

«Isolating species has consequences — it can catalyze evolutionary change over hundreds of thousands to millions of years,» Behrensmeyer said, «but it also makes species more vulnerable to extinction.»

«Before the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched in 2009, we thought that it took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to change the lunar surface layer significantly,» Speyerer said.

«With this discovery, we are beginning to resolve the Sun's mysterious transition region, a thin region in the solar atmosphere where the temperature soars from ten thousand to millions of degrees,» said Dr. Thomas Berger of the Lockheed - Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab (LMSAL), Palo Alto, Calif. «We are excited because this discovery offers us a new way to study the mass and energy flows in this region.

Contingency genes function like a «library of thousands to millions of potential variants,» says Moxon.