Sentences with phrase «unknown number of centuries»

Those would mean 6 and 8 metres respectively total SLR which is a huge deal, even if it will take some unknown number of centuries.

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The other tenth - century Islamic document in Javanese is from an unknown author — unknown because a number of pages are missing at the beginning and the end of the manuscript.

Known transcendental numbers, proven to exist in the middle of the 19th century, are at the same time rare — the most famous being Pi — and supposedly many, but yet unknown, and mathematicians seemingly wait for them to spring up somewhere.

Washington, DC — At its January 2016 Board of Trustees meeting, the National Gallery of Art acquired a number of works including an extraordinary painting by Dutch master Frans van Mieris (1635 — 1681), an early portrait by Alex Katz (b. 1927) of his wife, Ada, a remarkable trompe l'oeil painting by an unknown 17th - century Dutch artist, and a deluxe - format artist's book with 80 woodcuts by Joan Miró (1893 — 1983).

The degree of incorporation of an unknown number of gases and particles (not only CO2, methane, methyl bromide, CFC substitutes, and the other known as GHG) is not known, and we would need maybe more than a century to have an estimate; at the same time, new compounds would be incorporating in the atmosphere.