millennium
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The 224-foot stunner makes its first return to England since its creation a millennium ago, still vibrantly alive with scenes from that nation’s 11th-century rebirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
But 2028 is a long way away, about a millennium in political time.
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
"Britons warned to get ready for biggest El Niño in a millennium," is the Guardian's take on the UN warnings.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
After Wari and Tiwanaku collapsed, at the end of the first millennium, the Andes split into sociopolitical fragments and with one major exception remained that way for more than three centuries.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
For millennia, people have transformed landscapes, forcing wildlife to adjust to cities, farms, roads, and other human activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Today’s Western culture isn’t the endpoint of a straight line from the poetry spoken around the Aegean three millennia ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The handful of millennia separating the Agricultural Revolution from the appearance of cities, kingdoms and empires was not enough time to allow an instinct for mass cooperation to evolve.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Many of these seemingly otherworldly volcanic fields are adorned with archaeological remains — from small dwellings to colossal animal-corralling structures called kites — that date back millenniums.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 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
For millenniums, all was still in the forest, until heavy waves stirred up by one of the hurricanes of 2004 scooped away the sand.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 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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