Example sentences of "a [adj] thousand year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few thousand years , the debris left by the occupants — including some of their remains , their artefacts and the burnt flints — was incorporated in a deposit which was forced into the cave from the outside by water . |
| 2 | The ring of gas in Supernova 1987A was not created in the explosion but ejected from the progenitor star a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 3 | Later , the star evolved into a blue supergiant , just a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 4 | A local newspaper in Sussex recently published a reader 's letter complaining that Darwin 's evolution theory is still taught in schools and colleges instead of creation , despite ‘ scientific evidence limiting the age of the Earth and Universe to a few thousand years ’ . |
| 5 | Most meteorites collected elsewhere in the world fell within the past 200 years , although some dates of fall range back a few thousand years . |
| 6 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 7 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 8 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 9 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 10 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 11 | The decimetre-scale interbedding between LDO and nannofossil ooze represents timescales from hundreds to a few thousand years . |
| 12 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 13 | A few thousand years ago , some violent explosive phenomenon occurred which hurled numerous bullets ( ‘ shrapnel ’ ) into the molecular cloud with velocities probably in excess of 400 km s -1 . |
| 14 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 15 | If , after a few thousand years of reduced temperature the trend reverses and average temperatures creep up again , the animals will come under the influence of a new selection pressure , and will be pushed towards growing shorter coats again . |
| 16 | But I 'm spun of stronger metal than that : when you 've spent a few thousand years wrestling with magicians determined to enslave you and entire religions devoted to your destruction , you develop ways of bouncing back . |
| 17 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |
| 18 | So many religions , such as the religion of Ancient Egypt , for instance , whi which made a great fetish of this , has a belief in a judgment after death , followed by eternal retribution er , heaven effectively for the just and er , damnation effectively for the unjust , and some religions like Catholicism stick in an intermediate state pur purgatory , where you can work , work off a sentence , as it were , for a few , for a few thousand years . |
| 19 | Homo sapiens sapiens seems to have replaced the Neanderthals in a few thousand years about 30000 years ago . |
| 20 | This image of the male owes its origin to the writings of the great historian Herodotus , following his visit to ancient Egypt two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 21 | The first dates back two and a half thousand years to the time when the Persians were at war with the Egyptians . |
| 22 | Since these words are of such great antiquity , recorded some three and a half thousand years ago , how are they still relevant today , especially in relation to the inner conflicts of our lives ? |
| 23 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 24 | The first records of the lands known as the Empire were made not by Men but by Dwarfs , over two and a half thousand years before the reign of the present Emperor Karl Franz . |
| 25 | Haunting the city from across the Nile are the three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx , these colossal constructions have guarded the desert border for over three and a half thousand years . |
| 26 | Is there really anything in common between what was understood by the term in the time of Plato and Pericles and the meaning or meanings given to it nearly two and a half thousand years later ? |
| 27 | He came first equal in the foot-race This incident raises for the first time a question which is still being debated two and a half thousand years later : were the Macedonians Greeks ? the orators and propagandists of the fifth and fourth centuries do not help for they contradict each other . |
| 28 | He leaned back , then took up the book and began to read again , letting Lao Tzu 's words — words more than two and a half thousand years old — wash over the sleeping boy and bring him ease . |
| 29 | The first formal study of the persuasive effect of language was written two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 30 | ASTRONOMERS were startled , and laymen amazed , when in 1979 Jack Eddy , of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder , Colorado , claimed that the Sun was shrinking , at such rate that , if the decline did not reverse , our local star would disappear within a hundred thousand years . |