Example sentences of "[prep] a million years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first known inhabitants of Italy lived around a quarter of a million years ago , when the country was mostly inhabited by elephants and rhinoceroses . |
| 2 | That 's three quarters of a million years old . |
| 3 | However , it is still not possible to be certain about world sea levels before the last quarter of a million years . |
| 4 | Marine and Quaternary Geology : This group is concerned with the study of fundamental physical , chemical and biological processes which enable Quaternary climatic and environmental changes and their causes to be inferred on timescales of a million years to less than one year . |
| 5 | ‘ Say simply and honestly that eternity is as much like an instant as like a million years , because it 's equally unlike either . |
| 6 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 7 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 8 | Party of baboons with typewriters working for a million years would n't come up with anything wise . ’ |
| 9 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 10 | There is evidence that , in living species too , ‘ fossil genes ’ occasionally come into their own again , and are re-used after lying dormant for a million years or so . |
| 11 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 12 | big sand stone rocks , they find things that fish today er had , had got other pediments that million years back , same thing , but not , not , not the same as they are today , you know , well they must of got hold of it to be different from a million years ago |
| 13 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 14 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 15 | Not in a million years . |
| 16 | You 'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country . |
| 17 | Not in a million years . |
| 18 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 19 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 20 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 21 | When the war was over , in a million years , and little Marie asked , ‘ What was your war like , Auntie Vi ? ’ she would tell her , ‘ Drab , queen . |
| 22 | No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years . |
| 23 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 24 | And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one ! |
| 25 | Not in a million years . |
| 26 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 27 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 28 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 29 | Ye 'd never have got it out of him in a million years . |
| 30 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |