Some caves probably continued to be painted over a period of several thousands of years.

Although such impacts happen very infrequently, even objects smaller than several kilometres in diameter cause significant damage when they hit the Earth at random intervals of hundreds or thousands of years.

For several thousand years, the free market was comprised of individuals craftsmen, traders, and consumers.

And you have to read your ancient history to realize what a revolution that has been, OK. This was not a prevalent view, few thousand years ago, and I attribute it to this non zero sum dynamic.

Over the course of millennia, people spread to all parts of the continents.

The exhibition will portray the origin and changing face of deserts over thousands of years.

Plant breeding has been practiced for thousands of years, since near the beginning of human civilization.

More modest events, but events nevertheless capable of threatening civilization and causing considerable damage to people and property, occur at a much more frequent rate, of the order of hundreds or thousands of years.

The lifetime of an H II region is of the order of a few million years.

Management Most ancient woodland in the UK has been managed in some way by humans for hundreds (in some cases probably thousands) of years.

Different methods have been used to calculate the weighted ranges over the years.

The PRC has for several decades been synonymous with China, but it is only the most recent political entity to govern mainland China, preceded by the Republic of China (ROC) and thousands of years of imperial dynasties.

The titanium's several thousand dollars, but the forms are very cheap.

The book sold several thousand copies within few weeks in Germany.

The cloud can contain hundreds of thousands of solar masses and extend for hundreds of light years.

The time required by propulsion methods based on currently known physical principles would require years to millennia.

Since there are electrons in the white dwarf and its volume is on the order of , will be on the order of .

And so what we are seeing is evidence of a refined technique that was being handed down over thousands and thousands of years, all over the world.

Many thousands of Jews are massacred and the violence spreads throughout Spain and Portugal.

This means that intelligence is under the influence of several genes, possibly several thousand.

It is an ancient civilization stretching back thousands of years, imbued with fierce national pride.

The culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, beginning in Mycenaean Greece, continuing most notably into Classical Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire and its successor the Byzantine Empire.

Having evolved from viruses that infected other animals, they first appeared in humans in Europe and North Africa thousands of years ago.

Give us a few millennia and we humans should last those few millennia will it happen again? If we continue, it'll happen again.

Many thousands of children have been orphaned by AIDS, and only 22 grow up in two parent families.

Several thousand were expelled from universities, and 80 were imprisoned following political trials.

The Middle East is going through a transformation that will play out for a generation, rooted in conflicts that date back millennia, Obama said.

The flexible reeds are used to build arched reed houses in a design unchanged for thousands of years as well as burned for fuel.

The Badr Brigade is composed of several thousand Palestinians, mostly long time PLO activists.

Several thousand people were killed during the pacification of South Kasai, which lasted through the spring of 1962.

Not very long ago, not many thousands of years ago, we actually lived in caves, and I don't think we've lost that coding system.

The Bushmen, or San, have inhabited the lands for thousands of years since they roamed the area as nomadic hunters.

For thousands of years, the area that would become Canada was the site of sporadic inter tribal conflicts among Aboriginal peoples.

The hurricane destroyed several thousand homes in New England, many of which were destroyed from the waters or the powerful winds.

According to incomplete statistics, several thousand people have died so far as a result of practising it.

It is unacceptable that in the twenty first century, women have still suffered with the results of a millennial culture that makes them subjugated to men.

This process can be used to isolate and concentrate a particular protein from a sample containing many thousands of different proteins.

Now this area is the economic driving force behind central Zeeland, generating many thousands of jobs.

Estimates of their numbers vary, but several thousand graduates of the Afghan camps survive.

Henna as an art form has existed for thousands of years. Found from Morocco to Bangladesh, henna is used to dye the hair and decorate the body.

was in its day an unprecedented event never before had two halves of the world, which had not had the slightest contact with one another for millennia, come face to face, nor had human beings had to confront other mythologies, architecture, aesthetics, languages, memories...

The occupying Israeli forces continued to destroy industrial installations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as well as thousands of hectares of agricultural land that would take decades to restore.

In the l980's, the worst terrorist incident killed 300 people. The attacks on America of September 2001 cost several thousand lives.

Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

That shallow history shouldn't suggest to anyone that we have all of the answers for all of the questions that will confront us in the ensuing millennia.