Example sentences of "million years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest importance of the Oklo reactors is that they are still there — after almost 2000 million years we can still find the fission products and demonstrate what happened . |
| 2 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 3 | Besides even if they did n't win it again for the next two million years we 'd never hear the end of it . |
| 4 | C. For nearly 200 million years it has rained on the Pennines . |
| 5 | We can not , since over 140 million years it is likely that the threat of extinction due to climatic change may have been continually postponed . |
| 6 | The insects were the first creatures to colonise the air and for a hundred million years it was theirs alone . |
| 7 | in the million years it has been taking |
| 8 | ‘ … yes , by about one second in every 100 million years you spent up there . ’ |
| 9 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |