Example sentences of "to [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know , too , that in the Devonian period , up to 410 million years ago , there were vast reefs off the west coast of Australia that were made by animals of a class that is now extinct , and were quite different from today 's corals . |
| 2 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 3 | The rate at which the Indian and Eurasian plates collide has slowed down since the Eocene — some 50 to 30 million years ago — to half its original rate . |
| 4 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 5 | An increasing dryness towards the end of the previous period had allowed forest to spread over most of the peat areas , but this in turn was interrupted in the sub-Boreal period , 5 000 to 2 800 years ago , by a widespread but shallow marine transgression . |
| 6 | Thus by a year the dicentric lesions have been lost from the CD45R0 subset , whereas they persist to some 10 years in the CD45RA subset . |
| 7 | This change occurred at the beginning of the Paleozoic era starting with the Cambrian period , about 570 to 700 million years ago . |
| 8 | Terrestrial ages determined on Antarctic chondrites ( the most abundant type of meteorite found throughout the world , see Box 2 ) range from about 1000 to 700 000 years , with some clustering of ages in the range of 300 000 to 600 000 years . |
| 9 | He was sentenced to another five years in jail on top of the two years for physical abuse he was already serving . |
| 10 | Psychiatric nurse Neil McGregor still suffers from effects of the injuries he sustained in the attack five months ago and faces up to another two years off work . |
| 11 | And one happy couple are looking forward to another 25 years together . |
| 12 | Mr Li could with a little luck look forward to another 20 years of political life . |
| 13 | Some 10 000 to 12 000 years ago the northlands were much colder than they are today , with mean temperatures 3–4°C lower . |
| 14 | Conodonts are small fossils found in rocks ranging in age from the Cambrian to the Triassic ( 590 to 215 million years ago ) . |
| 15 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 16 | Laminated sediment occurs intermittently in the above sites from 15 to 4.4 million years ago ( Myr BP ) but is concentrated at about 15 , 13–12 , 10.5–9.5 , 6.3–6.1 , and 4.4Myr with a more geographically restricted interval at 5.8–5.1Myr . |
| 17 | The massive decline of the state hospital population in the USA , from a peak of half a million in 1955 to 191,000 twenty years later indicates that the scale of change is indeed highly significant , and that , in some form , a transfer of care has occurred . |
| 18 | In the Triassic Period , 225 to 190 million years ago , before the age of dinosaurs , the predominant groups of herbivorous land animals belonged to two quite different groups of reptiles : the synapsids , or mammal-like reptiles ; and the rhynchosaurs . |
| 19 | The late Triassic forms from Argentina and Brazil ( Scaphonyx ) , India and Scotland ( Hyperodapedon ) , dating from 205 to 190 million years ago , have broad skulls , no palatal teeth , and one groove and no lingual teeth on the maxilla . |
| 20 | From about 9 000 to 7 000 years ago there was a gradual improvement of climate , the predominantly birch forest of the previous period being replaced by pine forest and then by mixed oak forest . |
| 21 | Their geographical distribution took place at least two to three million years ago . |
| 22 | : the geology of the period which began two to three million years ago , and which contained the last major planetary ice age . |
| 23 | Some two to three hundred years ago , Nottingham was one of the most beautiful towns in England . |
| 24 | This myth was later popularized by Martínez Mariana 's Teoría de las Cortes , where it was argued that the destruction of medieval Cortes by the Hapsburgs , a destruction completed by the suppression of the comunero rebellion of Padilla ( 1520 ) , was the necessary prelude to three hundred years of ‘ slavery and despotism ’ . |
| 25 | Terrestrial ages determined on Antarctic chondrites ( the most abundant type of meteorite found throughout the world , see Box 2 ) range from about 1000 to 700 000 years , with some clustering of ages in the range of 300 000 to 600 000 years . |
| 26 | I thank you for all your prayers and support over many years and look forward to these 2 years in and around the fellowship . |
| 27 | In women , however , the data suggested an increased risk of gastric cancer after seven years where the relative risk was 4.7 ( 1.7–10.3 ) after an initial decrease from 12.6 in the first year to 1.9 4–7 years after start of cimetidine use . |
| 28 | can go up to sixty three years ! |
| 29 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 30 | The early amphibians spanned the late Devonian right up to the end of the Triassic , some 345 to 195 million years ago , as ‘ lords of the coal swamps ’ . |