Millennia

"Millennia" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Experiments in space-time shortcuts proved dangerous during those brave millennia.

The subsequent years after First Contact allowed humanity to skip what could have been millennia of material and spiritual development.

During millennia of space exploration, human travellers found remnants and ruins of ancient alien civilizations. It was "Knock, knock, who's there?" but there was no answer...

Indigenous Australians have eaten kangaroos for millennia.

"All humans are mortal" is an empirical observation based on millennia of experience.

A million years encompasses a thousand millennia.

The inexorable force of the waves crashing against the shore over millennia caused a huge section of the headland to fall into the sea.

Some countries use ordinal numbers to count millennia, whereas others count them using cardinal numbers.

Most of what we consider modern civilization fits within the last 11,000 years—a period of remarkable climatic stability in which people have been able to continuously inhabit in the same regions for millennia.

Tradition holds that writing first appeared in the Sumerian period, three and a half millennia before the common era.

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Could its existence mean the ancient Greeks knew the Earth moved round the Sun more than a millennia before Copernicus brought it to the world in the sixteenth century?

In ancient Egypt, at the turn of the first millennia, animal mummies were produced in vast numbers as offerings to the pantheon of gods.

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