Sentences with phrase «times over billions of years»

Depending on where the Roche limit is, Minton and Hesselbrock believe this cycle may have repeated between three and seven times over billions of years.

Rather than catastrophic resurfacing that would take as little as 10 million years, Venus may have had gradual turnover of a thin crust stirred by mantle plumes or asteroid collisions that renewed the surface 1 percent at a time over billions of years.

Not exact matches

Two years ago, after Facebook's $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp made huge news, the New York Times reported that Zuckerberg and WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum negotiated the deal over a plate of chocolate - covered strawberries at Zuckerberg's house.

The single biggest element is $ 17.6 billion over five years in spending restraint, including anticipated lowered operating costs of $ 6.8 billion over the same time period.

For the full - year ended March 31, 2013, Alibaba reported $ 1.4 billion in profit, an increase of 85 percent over the same time period a year earlier.

Cisco Consulting Services estimated that the adoption cost of the IoE would be about US$ 180 billion for the industry, but over a 10 - year period, the multiplier impact would be about three to four times when it's translated to the global economy.

The discovery comes at a particularly sensitive time for merchants, not only because this is the busiest time of the year for most, when by some estimates U.S. retailers will notch $ 630 billion in sales, but also because most merchants are now in the process of switching over to terminals that accept chip cards, also known as EMV cards.

Estimates of Trump's net worth have varied over the years, with the real estate mogul insisting at times that he's worth in excess of $ 10 billion, and he even sued an author who pegged his net worth far lower.

Sales of HP's personal computers sank 13 % year over year to $ 7.5 billion while sales of printers and related supplies dropped 17 % to $ 4.6 billion during the same time period.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

He's on the board of a billion revenue company, has written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and over a dozen popular websites for the past 15 years.

The credit has been extended 16 times since 1981, but it would cost the federal government more than $ 22 billion over the next 10 years, and it is the most expensive of the tax provisions being considered for renewal, says Rosenberg.

Ardagh, which has been manufacturing Dutch brewer Heineken's (HEIO.AS) iconic green beer bottles for over 25 years and also counts L'Oreal and Coca - Cola among its clients, has said it will use the proceeds of the IPO to pay down debt which stood at $ 7.2 billion or over five times its annual earnings last year.

In the subsequent years, he played a central role in building it into a publicly - traded buyout and mezzanine fund with a portfolio of over $ 1 billion invested in sixty - three middle market companies by the time he left in 2002.

The first time Mr. Salem surveyed his group, in the fall of 2007, one person wanted 22 %, a return that, over 50 years, would turn $ 100,000 into $ 2.1 billion.

In comparison, budgets over the 1994 - 95 to 2005 - 06 included explicit prudence of about $ 4 billion in year one, rising to $ 7 billion in year 5, reflecting the fact that uncertainty increases over time.

Jeff Sutton, for one, has purchased $ 2.96 billion worth of prime Manhattan retail properties in 18 deals over the past five years, according to RCA, which found that he was the most active investor in the sector during that time period.

Wealthy Chinese property hunters spent a total of $ 22.6 billion on Australian property over the past 7 years, and many first - time buyers and middle - class locals are feeling the heat in... Per saperne di più >

A New York Times article on Goldman Sach's aluminum holdings found that by manipulating the availability of that metal, they drove up prices by $ 5 billion over the last three years.

The 75 Utilities companies that we cover have had negative free cash flow in four of the past five years, with a cumulative cash burn of almost $ 150 billion over that time.

Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).

Over a fifteen to twenty billion year period of time, matter has struggled to become alive, and life to become conscious.

The time periods are so hard to conceive, but over billions of years it is possible, with no intelligence.

Referring to explanations for set of facts as theories allows for modifications as sceintific knowledge expands, it does not change the fact that apples fall to the ground, or that lifeforms descend with modification over time, or that the Earth has been dated to be approximately 4 billion years old.

Because of the practice of contraception over the last 40 - 50 years, the world's population at this time is estimated to be short by at least 2 billion individuals.

Majority of species appeared in a very short geological time — The Cambrian explosion occurred 530 billion yrs ago, and the rate of evolution accelerated over 70 - 80 billion years (now I hope we understand that figure)!

A) Man was not around at the «BEGINNING of time,» B) Man didn't even gain the ability to speak until roughly 200,000 years ago (which is a drop in the bucket to Wikipedia's guess that the earth is over 4.5 billion years old, and C) why would they logically (assuming you were remotely possible of being correct) man immediately assume the ultimate destruction of earth at the first dawn of life?

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

Somehow, if one believes in scripture, both are compatible and one can believe that there is a creator without also rejecting the mountains of evidence that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and that life forms evolved over time.

For the first time, the logistics provider achieves revenue of over EUR 6 billion with growth driven by strong export business in Europe and invigorated global trade.In the 2017 financial year, Dachse...

Australia has food exports of over $ 30 billion per year, almost three times more than the value of food imports.97 Also, the extensive network of FTAs aids competitiveness and signifies Australia's valued status as a trading partner to importers.

«Over a billion of repayments in the next five years is a devastating hit to the NHS budget - particularly at a time when budgets will be under increasing pressure as a result of Labour's economic mismanagement,» SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson said.

An official review, leaked to the Sunday Times, said «endemic» failures at the Ministry of Defence have led to projects being # 35 billion over budget and five years behind schedule.

There were # 15 billion of cuts to the welfare budget over the five years between 2010 and 2015, during which time Duncan Smith was work and pensions secretary.

In a recent study, the Partnership for New York City found that congestion costs the city $ 20 billion annually in lost time and revenue; if nothing is done to «discourage cars and trucks from crowding the streets and highways of the region during the busiest times of the day,» that'll be a staggering hit of $ 100 billion to the city economy over the next five years.

This is particularly important given the costs of the scheme, which include # 3.4 billion from the IT budgets of local NHS trusts over the next ten years - a large investment at the best of times, but particularly difficult for those dealing with million - pound deficits.

Cuomo proposed directing $ 1.5 billion in one - time surplus funds — won through settlements from big banks — to a competitive process in which three of seven upstate regions would win $ 500 million over the course of five years.

Over time the state's general fund contribution to the MTA has dwindled to all of $ 7 million per year (the MTA's annual budget is over $ 12 billiOver time the state's general fund contribution to the MTA has dwindled to all of $ 7 million per year (the MTA's annual budget is over $ 12 billiover $ 12 billion).

The governor proposed $ 2 billion in his budget to be used over five years to address clean water infrastructure, but some estimates for the total cost of water infrastructure needs in the coming decades are 40 times that amount.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed $ 2 billion in his budget to be used over five years to upgrade and protect drinking water but some estimates for the total cost of water infrastructure needs in the coming decades are 40 times that amount.

Unlike that time - honored tradition of city dwellers heading to the East End in the summer, attendance at the legendary horse races at Belmont has diminished over the years, which is why Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recently announced plans to add a $ 1 billion dollar arena and retail space to the property has gotten locals talking.

The governor's office told the Observer that the MTA's utilization of so - called «minority and women - owned business enterprises» has increased by more than 60 percent during his time in office, resulting in more than $ 1 billion in contracts awarded to MWBEs over the past seven years — with more than $ 300 million in fiscal year 2015 - 2016 alone.

The Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have over the past 2 1/2 years received taxpayer - financed contracts to help manage the sale of more than $ 3 billion worth of bonds for New York state, according to a review of state records by International Business Times.

Due to settlements with banks, the state's latest financial plan projects there will be $ 5.1 billion in one - time cash to spend in the next fiscal year, setting off a hurried scramble over who would get what slice of the pie.

Sometime last year, Jibrin who was House Committee Chairman at the time alleged that this quartet padded the 2016 budget to the tune of over N40 billion.

«It is time that Albany and City Hall step up to provide greater support to our public higher education system and today all of us here today and countless others are calling upon New York City, City Hall and Albany to commit to a $ 2 billion plan over the next five years,» James said.

Combine that with Labour's failure to hold a full strategic defence review after 1998, whilst at the same time splurging on long - term contracts so that there are now unfunded defence liabilities of about # 37 billion over the next ten years, and you get some measure of the mess the coalition has been left with.

In less than a few tens of seconds, the blast emitted energy that might correspond to 10,000 times the energy released by our sun over the past five billion years.

«These new standards will save more than 10 billion gallons of water in the first year, and over time, the water savings will be even greater,» said Energy Commissioner Andrew McAllister.

GRB 990123, was one of the most energetic and the most closely observed gamma bursts ever — emitting in less than a few tens of seconds a blast energy that might correspond to ten thousand times the energy released by our sun over the past five billion years.