epoch

Using this data, the team reconstructed ocean changes stretching back almost 12,000 years to the start of the Holocene epoch, which began after the last major ice age.

In the first document, Mr Collins sets out that the government at the time saw China as an "evolving and epoch defining challenge".

At the time, despite Picasso’s global renown, few collectors had the mettle for the revolutionary but difficult Cubist epoch.

As Dickens prophetically reminds us, ours is hardly the first age of wisdom and of foolishness, the first epoch of belief and of incredulity.

While that’s yet to be definitively proven, we’re certainly at the end of a previous epoch in which upward mobility felt more achievable.