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
Barabak: It’s a long way — about a millennium, as you said — from here to November 2028.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The vast Theban necropolis, comprising an area of around 10km², was Egypt’s main royal and elite cemetery for half a millennium, from ca.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The incredible thing is that, for the first few hundred years of the first millennium ad, before a universal notation system emerged, all of the chant that monks and nuns sang was memorised.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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"We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was here millennia ago," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Park explains: "Breathing techniques have accompanied humanity for millennia across various religions and cultures. With this study, we provide scientific proof that it is a reliable and targeted method capable of controlling our decisions."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Language, on the other hand, dates back only about a hundred millennia, a shorthand humans created to process and relay concepts great and small.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The rise of farming was a very gradual affair spread over centuries and millennia.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Cody, 41, is a millennial at the forefront of an art form harking back millenniums — at once building on tradition and joyously venturing beyond it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 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
After a religious revolt against robots millenniums before the start of the series, the use of intelligent machines was banned.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have dug up massive amounts of fossil fuels that took millenniums to form underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
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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