About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

About five years ago, Handley came to ask me if he could see the tattered register.

About 15 % of the population is foreign, most of them immigrants from Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia who have arrived in the previous 10 years.

* Unit cost: About $ 477, 000, but this varied greatly, especially as the years went by

About 4, 000 years ago, migrating Native Americans settled in the fertile valleys and coastal areas of what is present day Chile.

About 15 % of patients survive two or more years.

About seven million years old, an age that makes it one of the youngest open clusters in the Milky Way, it appears to have the shape of a letter A.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

About 75, 000 years ago, this Indonesian volcano released about 2, 800 </ sup > km < sup > 3 </ sup > DRE of ejecta, the largest known eruption within the Quaternary Period ( last 1. 8 million years ) and the largest known explosive eruption within the last 25 million years.

About half of the world's original forests had been destroyed by 2011, the majority during the previous 50 years.

About 20 years later, John Ambrose Fleming ( scientific adviser to the Marconi Company

About 10 years back the International Development Agency, the European Union and Japan.

About 1. 5 million immigrants had been processed at the first building during its five years of use.

About 1749, the family bought a house in the city of Zaragoza and some years later moved into it.

About 2 million years ago Grenada was formed as an underwater volcano.

About 300, 000 years after this event, atoms of hydrogen and helium began to form, in an event called recombination.

About 30 years later American engineer and inventor Laurens Hammond filed U. S. Patent 1, 956, 350 for a new type of " electrical musical instrument " that could recreate a pipe organ-type sound.

About 25 years after Herodotus, Thucydides, perhaps the most important of historians, pioneered a different form of history, one much closer to reportage.

About 90 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous Period, the Indian Plate began moving north at about 15 cm / year ( 6 in / yr ).

About 50 to 55 million years ago, in the Eocene Epoch of the Cenozoic Era, the plate collided with Asia after covering a distance of, having moved faster than any other known plate.

About eight to 12 annual changing exhibitions and permanent collection exhibitions provide educational opportunities for all ages, from learning the history of a quilt hand-stitched over 100 years ago to discovering how scientists analyze the physical properties of artists ' materials, such as glass or stone.

About ten years later, the employment of children and women in mining was forbidden.

About 1, 600 years ago, a popular ink recipe was created.

About 2, 000 years ago it reached eastern America.

About 15, 200 years ago, groups of people are believed to have crossed the Bering Strait from Asia and survived as nomads, hunting, gathering fruits and vegetables and fishing in the sea, rivers and lakes.

About 5, 000 years ago the sea levels were low enough that they could walk to the limestone outcrops.

About 45 million years ago, the Indian plate collided with the Asian landmass, raising the Himalayas in northern India, and continuing to advance slowly to the present time.

About 2, 000 years ago, Bantu-speaking people began to arrive from western Africa in a series of migrations.

About 2000 years ago, Bantu-speaking people began to arrive from western Africa in a series of migrations.

About 50 million years ago, this fast moving Indo-Australian plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean, the existence of which has been determined by sedimentary rocks settled on the ocean floor, and the volcanoes that fringed its edges.

About 70, 000 – 100, 000 years ago some modern humans began to migrate away from the tropics to the north where they were exposed to less intense sunlight, possibly in part due to the need for greater use of clothing to protect against the colder climate.

About two thousand years ago, Germanic peoples were recorded in the area.

About 100 years ago, the Congo Free State in Africa was also a significant source of natural rubber latex, mostly gathered by forced labour.

About one million years ago ( mya ), the stream was " captured " and began to flow east.

* 3: Somerset-Wiltshire: About forty years ago ( from an unspecified date ) country women in shawls and sun bonnets used to come to the market at Weston-super-Mare in little carts carrying little basins of new wheat boiled to a jelly, which was put into a large pot with milk, eggs, and sultanas, and was lightly cooked ; the resulting mixture was poured into pie-dishes and served on mid-Lent Sunday and during the ensuing week.

About 3. 4 billion years ago, nitrogen was the major part of the then stable second atmosphere.

About 10, 900 years ago, the Niagara Falls was located between present-day Queenston, Ontario, and Lewiston, New York, but erosion of their crest has caused the waterfalls to retreat approximately southward.

About 12 to 15 million years ago the East Pacific Rise began cutting into the margin of the North American Plate, initiating the separation of the peninsula from it.

About ten years ago it was discovered that the flying buttresses on the east end were no longer connected to the adjoining stonework, and repairs were made to prevent collapse.

About 132, 000 years ago the course of the river changed southwards at Schaffhausen and formed a new channel, which also filled up with gravel.