Sentences with phrase «vast spans of time»

The trick to understanding the past is finding artifacts that have remained largely intact over vast spans of time.

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Most of us have little real appreciation of what a vast time span this represents, and it raises many fascinating questions for which, as yet, there are no clear answers.

For instance, next year the ship JOIDES Resolution is scheduled to drill into the floor of the Pacific Ocean to extract rock cores that will span the period from about 53 million to 18 million years ago, a time of vast climate change.

The units of time range from the infinitesimally brief to the interminably long.The descriptions given here attempt to convey a sense of this vast chronological span.

In our galaxy, newborn stars span an enormous range of masses: A few rare superstars arise with more than 100 times the mass of our sun, but the vast majority is composed of dim red dwarfs with just a fraction of the sun's mass.

During the Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2009, the vast majority of passive and active funds lost over half their value in a very short time span.

Canada spans six time zones, such is its size, but every inch of space beyond its towns and cities is occupied with vast, breath - taking landscapes.

The show's span isn't vast in time, but in cultural and artistic changes, transformations of themes, techniques and scales, it feels like a life - time's work.

India has a vast number of young engineers and a comprehensive IT market ready to explore all innovative technologies in a very short span of time.