Sentences with phrase «which over hundred of thousands of years»

That's a slightly smaller number which over hundred of thousands of years is possible.

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Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

In fact it's a tight collection of several hundred thousand stars, most of which are packed into a ball just a few light - years across (though the whole object is over 100 light - years in diameter).

Stalagmites (which grow from the ground up) and stalactites (which hang from the ceiling) form when water at the surface seeps through the soil and drips into underground chambers over hundreds or thousands of years.

«There are very few examples in the galaxy of this process in action because this phase is short - lived, perhaps lasting only a hundred thousand years, while the timescale over which a resulting disk is visible could be only ten thousand years or less.»

Severinghaus discovered that xenon and krypton are well preserved in ice cores, which provides the temperature information that can then be used by scientists studying many other aspects of the earth's oceans and atmosphere over hundreds of thousands of years.

Its speed of over 25 miles a year is three times faster than the typical speed of liquid in the outer core and hundreds of thousands of times faster than the speed at which Earth's tectonic plates move.

Over hundreds of years, scientists have learned much about the brain, including the countless methods through which information is transferred from neuron to neuron at a junction called a synapse, and how hundreds — even thousands — of neurons can function together to form a larger circuit responsible for any given activity.

The deposits were formed over hundreds of thousands of years in the past, when the sea level was much lower and areas now under the ocean were exposed to rainfall which was absorbed into the underlying water table.

«This year we received over 850 newcomers since August — and hundreds of them arrived after submitting the CALPADS reporting data, which means hundreds of thousands of dollars from our own expenditures will go unfunded this year.»

«I've spent time in hundreds of different school models, if not a thousand, just given the roles I've had in education over the years, and I think you can become kind of numb or just comfortable with the status quo of classrooms in which kids aren't engaged, and the teachers have lost their mojo or love for teaching because they're given a scripted curriculum from their district that they have to follow, and they have no ability to be entrepreneurial or creative.»

At one point, we were about a hundred miles off the coast of New York City when we drifted over a place known to scientists as the Hudson Canyon, which is where the Hudson River used to drop over the continental shelf twenty thousand years ago when seas were lower.

«I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error.

With over 4 million companion animals put down in shelters each year, hundreds of thousands of which are in California, this comprehensive spay / neuter campaign could drastically reduce that number.

OHS, which receives no tax dollars, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars investigating the case and providing needed animal care over two years.

The exhibition consists of three parts: the artworks, the archival materials, and a lexicon of over five thousand artists born between 1880 and 1980, essentially documenting one hundred years of Chinese modern art history, which was discovered on his computer.

Over the four years that May operated, hundreds of people volunteered and participated as board members to help produce the astounding and consistently awe - inspiring immersive exhibitions, which thousands of visitors from around the world viewed and participated in.

Conceived as a public art project in Norway, Paterson has planted one thousand trees in a forest outside of Oslo, which will grow over the next hundred years before being cut down and providing the paper for an anthology of books that will be printed and read in the year 2114.

LACMA's Costume and Textiles Collection The Fra Angelico Collection will enter LACMA's Costume and Textiles Department, which houses over twenty - five thousand objects, representing more than one hundred cultures and two thousand years of human creativity in the textile arts.Particularly well - represented are European textiles, fashionable dress, and accessories including the museum's groundbreaking acquisition of more than 1,000 works that was highlighted in the recent exhibition Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700 — 1915, which will be travelling to the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin and the Musée de la Mode et du Textile / Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Even at 2.0 °C, and certainly above it, it is thought that the Earth would cross certain tipping points, beyond which the operation of the Earth System is changed in an irreversible way, at least over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years.

If there were global temperatures more than 2 °C of 3 °C above the current average temperature, this would take the climate outside of the range of observations which have been made over the last several hundred thousand years.»

Models have long suggested that Earth's orbit shifts from circular to elliptical and back again over hundreds of thousands of years, which plays a part in natural climate swings.

The problem for the oceans is that the pH compensating mechanism involves slowing the rate of limestone deposition, which takes thousands of years, and we're adding CO2 over hundreds of years, so the «buffer» is overwhelmed.

Given human nature over that hundred plus years of records, it is highly likely that all the foibles and faults of those thousands of observers and their measuring equipment will through sheer numbers and bulk have about evened out to a neutral point around which the real actual temperature will be centered.

Only one of the past «Big Five» mass extinctions (the dinosaur extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous) is thought to have occurred as rapidly as would be the case if currently observed extinctions rates were to continue at their present high rate (Alvarez et al., 1980; Barnosky et al., 2011; Robertson et al., 2004; Schulte et al., 2010), but the minimal span of time over which past mass extinctions actually took place is impossible to determine, because geological dating typically has error bars of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

To answer this question, the scientists examined a hypothetical scenario in which the Big Five extinctions occurred suddenly, such that all of the species went extinct over just 500 years rather than over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

During its over three year journey the HMS Challenger not only collected thousands of new species and sounded unknown ocean depths, but also took hundreds of temperature readings — data which is now proving invaluable to our understanding of climate change.

Denison handled an average of twenty - eight thousand cases a year, which, according to Harry Wodson, police court reporter for the Evening Telegram, constituted an astonishing caseload of over five hundred a week.

The rush to the bottom of the Realtor well of irrelevancy is well underway (pun intended) thanks to what I label as the unrecognized psychology of the self - serving communal thinking practices of Organized Real Estate top level comfortably - salaried bureaucrats (not the here today, gone next year regularly turned over faux president puppets), who, because they are in perpetual positions of conflict of interest (more dues from more registrants equals more money for their in - house empires, which thus creates more guaranteed money for them personally and thence for their underling cronies which in turn leads to a solidification of their own top jobs as well as for their underlings» jobs over whom «they» need to be seen as being in control of... which is as usual job one) do what is best for themselves first, in order to avoid becoming being viewed as being redundant in the eyes of their tax - payers... the one - hundred thousand plus Canada - wide money - supplying whether - they - know - what - they - are - doing - or - not registrants.