millennia

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This provides "very little evidence that the yeasts have been multiplying over millennia," he said, adding that he believed they were "relatively recent colonists of the mummy's body".

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Reid said if several centimetres are lost to fire, then "you're losing decades, centuries, potentially millennia of peatland".

From BBC • May 2, 2026

The book ends with Fagan questioning the appeal of hunting across the millennia and sidestepping an answer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Although the concept of flavored yogurts has existed for millennia across the diaspora, raita is believed to have first appeared in print around the 19th century.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

None of these tasks requires zero; civilizations functioned perfectly well for millennia before its discovery.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife