Sentences with phrase «through millions of years»

Intimacy & Desire explains how sex and selfhood are interwoven through millions of years of human evolution.

See free flying birds of prey, meet rare and endangered animals in the nocturnal house, and take a cinematic journey through millions of years of desert evolution.

Only those cells with a flexible genome, honed through millions of years of environmental forcing and variability selection, can transition from one energy state to another.

Their importance in the immune response could be one reason those pathways have survived through millions of years of separate evolution of these species.

What's clear now is that the rising numbers of diagnoses are not caused by some risk factor hidden in our modern world, but are what he calls «a strange gift from our deep past, passed down through millions of years of evolution».

Although the researchers don't know whether the embedded viral sequences have a function, they suspect they are helpful to the animals — otherwise, they wouldn't have endured through millions of years of evolution.

Through millions of years of evolution, the chick's brain has acquired the wisdom that this long thing with a red spot always has a mother, not an inquisitive ethologist, attached to it, and it makes an interpretive shortcut.

Or you can continue to believe that you are a product of chance, that there is no God, that somehow through millions of years of evolution that the perfect experiment happened, that by chance the earth is the precise distance from the sun to allow us to live and that we slithered out of the primordial goo, stood upright and built highrises.

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Through the end of October, the company has sold 2.6 million hardware units in the U.S., and on Monday, boosted its full year sales forecast (worldwide) for the Switch from 10 million to 14 million units.

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

In the 2016 election cycle, the average winning Senate candidate had spent $ 10.4 million through October 19 of that year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The accord to keep 1.8 million barrels of production off the market runs through the end of the year, and it is expected to be reviewed in June.

This suggestion comes from Jason Hartman, a 34 - year - old millionaire from Southern California who has conveniently written Become the Brand of Choice: How to Earn Millions Through Relationship Marketing (Lifestyles Press, $ 16.95, http://www.brandofchoice.com).

Fujifilm said it would book restructuring costs of 49 billion yen ($ 450.95 million) in the second half of the fiscal year through March, lowering its operating profit forecast for the year to 130 billion yen from a previous 185 billion yen.

As part of its deal last year to buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals and the Addyi drug, Valeant committed to spend $ 200 million on sales and other expenses through June 2017 (see page 13).

About 40 percent of the energy used to control the climate in buildings seeps out through windows and doors, producing more than 250 million tons of emissions a year, according to the Department of Energy.

Near the end of last year, Fulcrum BioEnergy closed on a $ 105 million loan guarantee through Bank of America backed by the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

«We're north of a million dollars in sales in less than one year,» says DeHerrera, who offers the high - end spinner directly to consumers through the Torqbar website.

OPEC, along with Russia and several other producer nations, is keeping 1.8 million barrels a day off the market through the end of the year in order to shrink global stockpiles of oil.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

ModCloth has raised $ 48 million in investment capital over four rounds of funding.Portland, Ore. - based designer Bernie Dexter has sold dresses through ModCloth for three years.

The website saw exponential growth through 2008 (its membership grew by 81 % to 1.4 million), and the trend has continued though this year — their number of visitors is up 42 % in 2009.

Centra, a startup that raised over $ 30 million this year through a so - called «Initial Coin Offering» promoted by celebrities including boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., is the target of a class action lawsuit that seeks the return of investor funds.

To our credit, two years later we had turned the company around and pulled through all of that trauma and sold the company successfully to Expedia for about $ 700 million.

Bitcoin trader Digital CC has claimed a profitable entry into the computer - generated currency sector, highlighting a $ 630,146 profit for three and a half months of business, despite the vehicle through which it conducted a backdoor listing recording an $ 11.8 million loss for the financial year.

Nintendo stuck to its latest target of selling 3.6 million Wii U and 12 million 3DS machines for the fiscal year through March 2015.

Even though the average American's 401 (k) balance rose 2 % since the first quarter of the year, the average account was still down 2.5 % for the three months ending in June compared to a year ago, according to a Fidelity analysis of 14.2 million people through the end of June.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

Gibson said sales of its electric guitars grew 10.5 percent to $ 122 million in the 12 months through January from a year earlier.

USPS will delivery packages every day, including Sundays, beginning Nov. 17 through Christmas Day and is expecting the number of packages it handles to range between 450 million and 470 million packages, up 12 % over last year's holiday season..

Nintendo is still targeting sales of 9 million Wii U units over the fiscal year through March 2014.

In fiscal year 2005 the SBA provided $ 20 million worth of MicroLoans, disseminated through non-profit groups, these loans are intended for the purchase of machinery and other equipment, office furniture, inventory, supplies, and working capital.

Facebook is facing its worst privacy scandal in years following allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a Trump - affiliated data mining firm, used ill - gotten data from millions of users through an app to try to influence elections.

One popular example is the story of DropBox, which through the use of a reward referral program acquired more than 200 million users in only a few short years.

New estimates show that almost half of the pass - through deductions will benefit households earning more than $ 1 million per year.

Under Title III of the JOBS Act, a company can raise $ 1 million a year from the crowd without having to go through the very expensive process of registering those securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Users of digital currency bitcoin more than doubled in the Philippines in the first half of last year from a year earlier, Espenilla said, while bitcoin transactions purportedly passing through registered companies in the country range from $ 2 million to $ 3 million per month based on available estimates.

Finally, after five years, when the $ 4 million loan is repaid, the employees will own 40 % of the company through the ESOP.

As he has since 2014, Warren Buffett offered $ 1 million every year for life to the person who could correctly predict the outcomes of all games through the Sweet 16 (this year the prize rose to $ 2 million if a Nebraska team took home the trophy).

This suggests that «Oumuamua could have been traveling through space, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years.

Overall, Microsoft is committing $ 500 million (roughly 1.7 % of its revenue last quarter) over the next two years to help startups as part of the program, through joint sales engagements, free software, and expanded Microsoft Reactor community spaces.

The current agreement between OPEC and allied non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output by 1.8 million barrels a day is set to extend through the end of the year.

Since its passage in 2010, the health care law has undoubtedly helped consumers, with 11 million additional people getting coverage in the past two years, mostly through an expansion of Medicaid.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hawaii.

Great Southern's profit of $ 41.4 million for the year to June 30 has reverberated through the investment world like a trumpet call.

The talks, known as the Doha round, were launched six years ago with the aim of adding billions of dollars to the global economy and lifting millions of people out of poverty through trade liberalization.

In the first half of the year, China - based ICOs raised about $ 400 million through 65 offerings with more than 100,000 investors, according to a report from the National Internet Finance Association of China.