millennium
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It nearly happened this millennium as Everton - last relegated in 1951 - stayed up by beating Bournemouth on the final day of the 2022-23 season.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
As the country welcomed the new millennium, ties to Europe had faded, especially as a new crop of immigrant Canadians arrived from Asia and the Caribbean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
By the first millennium B.C.E., it ranked among the “five grains,” the staple crops recognized in early Chinese texts.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
But 2028 is a long way away, about a millennium in political time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
By the end of the first millennium a.d.,
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Such an event would mark a profound change in a region that has maintained extensive seasonal ice cover for millennia.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
One such bog in Sweden called Gullåkra, “fields of gold,” served as a site of ritual sacrifice for millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Bering land bridge, during its millennia of intermittent existence, would have been up to a thousand miles wide, covered by open tundra, and easily traversable by people adapted to cold conditions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Like the steady drip-drip-drip of water on stone, which over millenniums reduces a monolith to sand, human contact will have its way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Three millenniums ago, a small, prosperous farming community briefly flourished in the freshwater marshes of eastern England.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
It would guide scientists in their understanding of our still-unfolding present for generations, perhaps even millenniums, to come.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Purple was labor-intensive, but so widely produced that piles of shells discarded millenniums ago are now geographical features in the region.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Collectively, memorable events have caused the ever-quickening pace of change during the past five millenniums, which begin with what we call the ancient world.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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