The men around him, observes the narrator, `` have been living from day to day for thousands of years ''.

The war could have continued many years with many thousands killed on both sides.

The psychological strategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over thousands of years.

Performed thousands of times in recent years, Mr. Dragon's arrangement has been played for state occasions such as the memorial services for Presidents Ford and Reagan and at tribute concerts for events such as the Oklahoma City bombing and 9 / 11.

Nevertheless, the basic idea of the atom was adopted by scientists thousands of years later because it elegantly explained new discoveries in the field of chemistry.

Around 70, 000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

Mercury had been smelted from cinnabar for thousands of years.

As the blooms die and sink, the carbon can be stored in sediments for thousands of years.

An important raw material, amber was transported from the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts overland by way of the Vistula and Dnieper rivers to Italy, Greece, the Black Sea, and Egypt thousands of years ago, and long after.

Aeronautics also finds mention in ancient China where people were flying kites thousands of years ago.

Donnelly attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis, which he saw as a technologically sophisticated culture, saying that Atlanteans invented gunpowder and the compass thousands of years before the rest of the world invented written language.

Accounting is thousands of years old ; the earliest accounting records, which date back more than 7, 000 years, were found in Mesopotamia ( Assyrians ).

Humans have been harnessing aerodynamic forces for thousands of years with sailboats and windmills.

Acidic deposits have been detected in glacial ice thousands of years old in remote parts of the globe.

Boron compounds were known thousands of years ago.

Within a few years there were thousands of these domes around the world.

While protons and neutrons combined to form the first atomic nuclei only a few minutes after the Big Bang, it would take thousands of years for electrons to combine with them and create electrically neutral atoms.

* Analyzing pollen found in fossils and sediment from thousands or millions of years ago allows reconstruction of past climates and the prediction of future ones.

For thousands of years, humans have used selective breeding to improve production of crops and livestock to use them for food.

The high level of biodiversity creates a high level of biological activity, which has attracted human activity for thousands of years.

In his book City Economics, Brendan O ' Flaherty asserts " Cities could persist — as they have for thousands of years — only if their advantages offset the disadvantages ".

The most commonly seen pattern is the grid, used for thousands of years in China, independently invented by Alexander the Great's city-planner Dinocrates of Rhodes and favoured by the Romans, while almost a rule in parts of pre-Columbian America.

It can linger in soil for thousands of years and inhibits decay of other substances.

For example, many everyday objects are hundreds or thousands of centimetres long, such as humans, rooms and buildings.

Recent discoveries at Monte Verde in South America, and at Meadowcroft Rock Shelter in Pennsylvania have effectively ended the " clovis first " position of American Archaeology and pushed the arrival of humans in the Americas back many thousands of years.

The only surviving humans, numbering in the thousands, and the only surviving Earth life, are resettled on Mars, after the annihilation of Earth.

While these humans eventually rebelled and buried the Stargate, thousands of others had been taken to the other planet through the Stargate and used to mine the quartzite-like mineral on which all of Ra's technology is based.

Certain radioactive elements ( such as plutonium-239 ) in “ spent ” fuel will remain hazardous to humans and other creatures for hundreds or thousands of years.

The majority of the land is in private ownership and has been worked by humans for thousands of years.

The few species of demosponge that have entirely soft fibrous skeletons with no hard elements have been used by humans over thousands of years for several purposes, including as padding and as cleaning tools.

Archaeological finds has shown that humans have been making use of shellfish as a food item for hundreds of thousands of years.

Ironically, while pollution and other forms of overuse by humans have driven it from its native home, it is bred for the aquarium fish trade by the thousands.

As there is forensic evidence from the Iron Age Haraldskær Woman that she consumed blackberries some 2500 years ago, it is reasonable to conclude that blackberries have been eaten by humans over thousands of years.

This would test whether thousands of humans can survive on their own before sending them beyond the reach of help.

Clamming once drew thousands of clammers to the beach during low tides and is still legal ; however, due to over-harvesting by humans and the protected sea otter ( which feasts on clams ), few clams are to be found.

The discovery of an ancient oyster midden offshore, thousands of years old, consisting of a huge pile of shells which could only have been deposited by humans, is further evidence that there was a regular population on Tangier, at least in the warm part of the year, long before it had an English name.

It's no wonder then that humans have inhabited this area, abundant with wildlife, for thousands of years.

Fortunately, computers are best suited for trial and error ; they do not succumb to the boredom that humans do, can test physical challenges in a virtual environment where they will not do harm, and can potentially do thousands of trial-and-error segments in the blink of an eye.

Proponents of ancient astronaut theories often maintain that humans are either descendants or creations of extraterrestrial beings who landed on Earth thousands of years ago.

Water Rails have been eaten by humans for thousands of years ; they were eaten by the Romans, and depicted in wall paintings at Pompeii, and consumption continued through the Middle Ages to modern times.

The marine then battles thousands of demons and is able to deactivate the force field, allowing the remaining humans to escape.

The Common Raven has coexisted with humans for thousands of years and in some areas have been so numerous that they are considered a pest.

She carries thousands of years of witches ' memories, enabling her to understand the sadness arising from the conflict between humans and witches.

Minds do not end up in roles unsuited to them ; an antisocial Mind simply would not volunteer to organise the care of thousands of humans, for example.

It is unlikely that it is possible to reconstruct a historical Tower of Babel linguistic community in which all humans spoke a common language ( although we can say with confidence that large stone edifices built by large organized communities of people, which date to the Neolithic era at the earliest, weren't built by any culture on Earth until at least many tens of thousands of years after there was a hypothetical common language of all humans, or even of all Eurasians ), or to gain very specific insight about what the language the original proto-Eurasians or the earliest modern humans spoke, although the lack of instances of writing more than about 5, 500 years ago, despite the extensive recovery of earlier artifacts and art from prehistory, makes it unlikely that earlier humans had anything approaching a complete written language.