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

And these seeds will be able to germinate, we believe, with many of the species, in thousands of years, and certainly in hundreds of years.

We are, instead, the products of hundreds of millions of years of myopic evolution, and thousands of years of unwritten and then recorded history.

Newsflash People a couple of hundred years ago didn't speak the same as we do.

However, at the current rate of progress, it will take hundreds of years to disappear.

History of carbon filters Carbon filters have been used for several hundred years and are considered one of the oldest means of water purification.

The logging operations result in a complete loss of lichen in the areas affected, allegedly lasting for hundreds of years.

Contemporary commenters despaired of the Roman Empire for several hundred years before it finally collapsed.

As the surface continually reshaped itself over hundreds of millions of years, continents formed and broke apart.

The Gregorian calendar was not accepted in eastern Christendom for several hundred years, and then only as the civil calendar.

For a few hundred years, when science and mathematics were enjoying a period of great invention, one region of the world stood out.

Small changes in Earth's orbit that occur over tens to hundreds of thousands of years alter the distribution of sunlight on Earth.

The primary of Regulus A has about 3.5 times the Sun s mass and is a young star of only a few hundred million years.

Catastrophic events capable of jeopardizing the survival of living species have a rate of recurrence of tens to hundreds of millions of years.

If you look forward, I mean future humans, far before the end of this millennium, in a few hundred years, they are going to look back at this moment.

So what's exciting about this system is that it's really, really mechanically simple, and you could make it using technology that's been around for hundreds of years.

Europe started its industrialization several hundred years ago, but for China, it has only been dozens of years.

Given the relative lack of craters on the smooth plains, these regions are probably less than a few hundred million years old.

I'm sure that, throughout the hundred thousand odd years of our species' existence, and even before, our ancestors looked up at the night sky, and wondered what stars are.

In England, the common law tradition evolved over hundreds of years through thousands of legal cases in which local lawyers, judges, and juries played key roles.

Such paranoia is widespread in Asia, where almost every country was at the mercy of Western powers for several hundred years.

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

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.

Contemporary commenters despaired of the Roman Empire for several hundred years before it finally collapsed. Could America find its way to a similar extension?

History Although international relations and international trade have existed for many hundreds of years, it is only in the past century that international development theory emerged as a separate body of ideas.

For hundreds of years, until 1947 the 8,550 strong Jewish community in Aden, despite some underlying resentment from the Arabs, lived in relative tranquility.

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

Actually if we go back into the historical record, there was a time hundreds of years ago when the income per person in India and China was even above that of Europe.

Many even scientists assume a linear model, so they'll say, Oh, it'll be hundreds of years before we have self replicating nano technology assembly or artificial intelligence.

But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double entry bookkeeping.

And it's not sustainable, and the huge logging camps in the forest are now demanding meat, so the Pygmy hunters in the Congo basin who've lived there with their wonderful way of living for so many hundreds of years are now corrupted.

The skills required to carve these sculptures were developed hundreds of years earlier, as demonstrated by some artifacts that have been dated to the seventh century, before the Khmer came to power.

It is generally accepted that oil is formed mostly from the carbon rich remains of ancient plankton after exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.

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.

And actually, since this is a tech crowd, I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors over hundreds of years.

Hundreds of years ago, many African kings effectively engaged with the West s rising imperial powers to halt the growth of indigenous industry in pre colonial Africa.

I'm pretty sure that one day we'll be writing history books hundreds of years from now. This time our generation will be remembered as the generation that got online, the generation that built something really and truly global.

So this art has been around for hundreds of years, and you would think something that's been around that long so restrictive, folding only everything that could be done has been done a long time ago.

And so, 25 years ago, there was a peak oil just like, in the 1920s, there was a peak coal and a hundred years before that, there was a peak wood.

Hundreds of years ago, a handful of European countries colonized whole continents and organized once independent or loosely related peoples into nation states, under a common colonial language.

These arguments were recorded in tablets several hundreds of years before any major war the first recording of a war occurred around 3200 BC but was not common until about 2500 BC.

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.

The Shield was originally an area of very large mountains (about ) with much volcanic activity, but over hundreds of million of years, the area has been eroded to its current topographic appearance of relatively low relief.

Some of the tools for this had been around for a hundred years, but it had only been used as a diagnostic technique until the 1980s, when there was changes in camera technologies and things like that, that allowed this to be done for real operations.

And the kind of social network I'm talking about is not the recent online variety, but rather, the kind of social networks that human beings have been assembling for hundreds of thousands of years, ever since we emerged from the African savannah.