The damage to human germ plasm would be such that in the next few generations 160,000 children around the world would be born with gross physical or mental defects.

However, this tenfold increase in population over the course of a few generations could not be achieved by increased birthrate alone ; likely it also involved migrations of peoples from surrounding areas.

Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.

The view of J. R. R. Tolkien is that the poem retains a much too genuine memory of Anglo-Saxon paganism to have been composed more than a few generations after the completion of the Christianisation of England around AD 700.

For decades the generations of few remaining sighthounds were regarded as hunting-suited, when showing enough attacking initiative for fox hunting.

The first few generations of the Alpha chips were some of the most innovative of their time.

With special nutritionally-enhanced diets, the insects can survive, but are unhealthy, and at best survive only a few generations.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

Blending inheritance would lead to uniformity across populations in only a few generations and thus would remove variation from a population on which natural selection could act.

Frequently a " list " type joke may get started but within a few generations of distribution it evolves beyond recognition.

If, after a few thousand generations, the bacteria evolved the bacterial flagellum, then Behe believes that this would refute his theory.

Koi are domesticated common carp ( Cyprinus carpio ) that are selected or culled for color ; they are not a different species, and will revert to the original coloration within a few generations if allowed to breed freely.

While it requires diligent oversight to narrow down the favorable result the breeder wants, it also makes possible the development of new varieties of koi within relatively few generations.

They quickly revert to the natural coloration of common carp within a few generations.

The main difference between the two processes is that one occurs within a few generations, whilst the other takes place over thousands of years ( i. e. a quantitative difference ).

The empire was relatively short-lived, as the Babylonians conquered them within only a few generations.

Christian monasticism first appeared in the Eastern Roman Empire a few generations before Benedict of Nursia, in the Egyptian desert.

Other Visigoths, refusing to adopt the Muslim faith or live under their rule, fled north to the kingdom of the Franks, and Visigoths played key roles in the empire of Charlemagne a few generations later.

Although what became the orthodox Christian church prevailed against Montanism within a few generations, inscriptions in the Tembris valley of northern Phrygia, dated between 249 and 279, openly proclaim their allegiance to the New Prophecy.

A few generations later came Mandhatri, in whose line the 31st king was Harischandra, known widely for his truthfulness ( Sathya-sandhata ) which he accepted as his life-style.

Then, after taking an oath not to surrender, they died to a man fighting the Persians, foreshadowing and perhaps setting an example for Spartan conduct at the Battle of Thermopylae a few generations later.

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

In most other series, teams tend to update their vehicles every few years or so ( examples include the 2005 vs. 2010 Mustangs in the Continental Challenge and the two different generations of Mazda RX-8 in the Rolex Series ).

After a few generations, a family could build up a sizable estate.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

A few weeks ago, I read in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston.

`` Sabine called a few minutes ago '', Eugene said.

This work gave a heat of formation of aluminum fluoride which closely substantiates a value which had been determined by a less direct method, and raises this property to 15 percent above that accepted a few years ago.

The outboard engine of today has a phenomenal range of one to 80 horsepower, unheard of a few years ago for a two cycle engine in quantity production.

Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.

Only a few years ago a middle western college circulated a request for a teacher of interior design.

We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

We mentioned odd-lot indices a few paragraphs ago.

In California, a few years ago, a ghoul by the name of H. F. Bell sold electric blankets as a cure for cancer.

A few years ago, not too long before his death, Phillips revealed in a newspaper story that he had always suspected Morse of the murders.

This is a significant fact in Japan, for only a few years ago he would have had no choice.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

Years ago when I asked her to put me in Social Security, so's I wouldn't have to be working now, Miss Julia threatened to fire me -- all because it would mean a few more dollars a year to her ''.

In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension.

Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

But as the tour reached Pensacola a month ago, Player was leading Palmer in official winnings by a few hundred dollars, and the rest of the field was somewhere off in nowhere.

Just a few centuries ago the world of spirits was as populous and real as the world of material entities.

At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.