Example sentences of "[prep] thousands of years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitemakers art has been stretched to its limits , after thousands of years of design modification . |
| 2 | But it takes hundreds of thousands of years for these processes to turn the sediments into carbonate rock , and meanwhile biological changes , it now seems , play a key role in deterring the fluctuating carbon dioxide balance . |
| 3 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 4 | The Silver Helm Knights are the culmination of thousands of years of experience in mounted combat . |
| 5 | This model ‘ explains ’ climatic changes on a timescale of tens of thousands of years in terms of changes in the Earth 's orbit and inclination to the Sun . |
| 6 | You 'll see mountains and canyons carved over hundreds of thousands of years from the underlying sandstone . |
| 7 | In her manifesto , prime mover Jill Greenhalgh wrote : ‘ There 's something new and vital and female that is lying latent and untapped , trapped under thousands of years of patriarchal art , and you just ca n't quite grasp it . ’ |
| 8 | It was a constant battle , fuelled by the basic survival instinct which kept men moving ahead over thousands of years towards what we are pleased to call modern civilization today . |
| 9 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 10 | For Tibetan freedom and for thousands of years of long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama — and because the Chinese should leave Tibet . |
| 11 | ABOVE Trephination — the removal of part of the skull — has been used for thousands of years across the world . |
| 12 | The existence of a fundamental ‘ life energy ’ has been postulated for thousands of years in many different civilizations , and crops up independently from sources which had little contact with each other . |
| 13 | all of a sudden in the next couple of years you 've got to go through thousands of years of evolution . |
| 14 | The state of emergency in which our planet finds itself consists not only in the contamination of nature but of the very roots of our thought , which are still shaped by thousands of years of prejudice and prescriptive categories . |