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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural) punishment to make people behave decently.

Gold bugs sometimes cite isolated historical data that suggest that gold s long term value has remained stable over the millennia.

On the land, phosphorus (chemical symbol, P) gradually becomes less available to plants over thousands of years, because it is slowly lost in runoff.

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.

Women have manifested for thousands of years the strength arising from compassion in an unfiltered, unmediated way in perceiving suffering as it is.

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.

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.

It took our ancestors hundreds, if not thousands of years to build our cities in the sands and our palaces in the mountains.

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.

This is largely due to the lack of comprehensive measures to remove the old paradigm of male chauvinism, which has been existence for thousands of years.

Now, diarrhea's interesting because it's been around for thousands of years, ever since humankind really lived side by side enough to have really polluted water.

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

I say that, for thousands of years, women have lived, exemplified, met in intimacy, the archetype of Avalokitesvara, of Kuan Yin, she who perceives the cries of suffering in the world.

It was used for thousands of years, but was mostly used by scholars and intellectuals which forms the top class of the society called shi da fu (士大夫 .

Objects of intermediate size can cause significant damage when they hit the Earth at random intervals of tens, hundreds or thousands of years.

So his thought was that flooding in the north of Africa actually brought those coniferous trees down tens of thousands of years ago, and what resulted was this remarkable adaptation to this unique desert environment.

Amerindians inhabited the land for over ten millennia before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century their cultures and influence represent the foundation of today s Peru.

Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains, may change human beings themselves. And human beings, their physique and character, has not changed for thousands of years.

In addition to the biological component, deep guano deposits of both kinds contain local paleoclimatic records in strata that have built up over thousands of years, which are unrecoverable once disturbed.

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.

And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of years.

The periodic rupturing of ice dams at Glacial Lake Missoula resulted in the Missoula Floods, with discharges 10 times the combined flow of all the rivers of the world, dozens of times over thousands of years.

The ordinary working people of India will continue to maintain that in which they have been schooled through millennia, that is, tolerance and harmony among all faiths at the same time, they will also maintain their unbreakable determination to resist.

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.

For 10 years, unfortunately we have found ourselves reporting images of destruction, images of killing, of sectarian conflicts, images of violence, emerging from a magnificent piece of land, a region that one day was the source of civilizations and art and culture for thousands of years.