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For thousands of years, the largest structures on Earth were pyramids — first the Red Pyramid in the Dashur Necropolis and then the Great Pyramid of Khufu, both of Egypt, the latter the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still remaining.
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For thousands of years, humans have used selective breeding to improve production of crops and livestock to use them for food.
For a brief time in Europe, an unusual form of cannibalism occurred when thousands of Egyptian mummies preserved in bitumen were ground up and sold as medicine.
For example, thousands of shareholders of a public company may have losses too small to justify separate lawsuits, but a class action can be brought efficiently on behalf of all shareholders.
For example, many everyday objects are hundreds or thousands of centimetres long, such as humans, rooms and buildings.
For example, at Cannae, the Romans deployed 80, 000 men, and generally could put tens of thousands more into smaller combat actions ).
For this purpose, Nehru oversaw the creation of mass village enrollment programmes and the construction of thousands of schools.
For instance, Virginia Hopkins stated in 1988 that " Kit Carson was directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Indians ".
For example, it is likely that even if the Library of Alexandria had hundreds of thousands of scrolls ( and thus perhaps tens of thousands of individual works ), some of these would have been duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples were the only inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine.
For thousands of years, society considers Mentats the embodiment of logic and reason.
For God's sake, Peggy, can't you write a book instead of reading thousands of them?
For thousands of years, Native Americans, like the European explorers and settlers who followed them, used the river as a major transportation and trading route.
For example, many bank installations, especially Automated Teller Machines, run OS / 2 with a customized user interface ; French SNCF national railways used OS / 2 1. x in thousands of ticket selling machines.
For two years after the bombing the only memorials to the victims were plush toys, crucifixes, letters, and other personal items left by thousands of people at a security fence surrounding the site of the building.
For thousands of years, Palauans have had a well established matrilineal society, believed to have descended from Javanese precedents.
For thousands of years, mathematicians have attempted to extend their understanding of, sometimes by computing its value to a high degree of accuracy.
For thousands of years, the polar bear has been a key figure in the material, spiritual, and cultural life of Arctic indigenous peoples, and polar bears remain important in their cultures.
For thousands of years, some of the heavily traveled caravan routes between the Mediterranean and the central and southern peninsula have passed through the Wadi as Sirhan.
For the referendum, Turkey had crossed tens of thousands of Turks into Alexandretta to vote.
For the first time in history, all nonemergency civilian aircraft in the United States and several other countries including Canada were immediately grounded, stranding tens of thousands of passengers across the world.
For thousands of years, emperors and rules ranging from the Western Zhou dynasty ( c. 1000 B. C.
For large scale complex systems, hundreds if not thousands of maintenance actions can result from the failure analysis.
For example, weddings in Pittsburgh often feature thousands of homemade cookies in addition to a wedding cake.
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For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.
For three straight years, Tom Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how many men he killed after Lewis and Powell ( if he killed Lewis and Powell ) will never be known.
For fifty years his guns and ham-like fists shot holes through and battered the daylights out of the enemies of law and order in the frontier towns of the West.
For over a hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them.
For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;
Later Helion wrote of this phase: `` For years I built for myself a subtle instrument of relationships -- colors and forms without a name.
For years Papa and Mama had been large taxpayers.
`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.
For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.
For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.
For years he wore hand-me-down suits and homemade paper collars, was even driven to scrounging for cigarette butts in Vienna's gutters.
For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.
For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.
For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.
For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.
For years the United States had been trying to get these countries to exclude Castro's representative from secret military talks.
For each State ( except Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ) determine average per capita income based on the last three years.
For each State ( except the Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ), determine the average per capita income for the last three years.
For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;
For the president, a master plan looking ahead five years ( the maximum reach for sound forecasting ), offers several practical advantages.
For some time this writer has been suggesting a Junior Judging Class for Intermediates over 16 and under 20 years of age who are ineligible to compete in the Junior Class.
For almost 3,000 years Europe and Asia have rubbed shoulders in its streets.
For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.
For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.
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