| The rest of those twenty feet took eons to traverse, and it was immeasurable suffering. |
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| After Stella's performance, the judges held a closed discussion for what seemed like eons. |
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| I am aware that mastodons once walked where I walk, that the seemingly solid ground under my feet has frozen and thawed over eons. |
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| The naturally occurring mineral serpentine sequesters carbon dioxide very slowly over eons. |
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| The moon, after all, had acted as a gravitational trap for meteoroidal material accumulated from space over many eons. |
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| I was doing that eons before this two-bit hustler started horning in on the action. |
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| Watching them soar, glide, call, and even dance at their spring wetland breeding grounds has fascinated people for eons. |
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| Precambrian divisions such as the Proterozoic and the Archean were conventionally eras but are now often referred to as eons. |
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| After he had gone on for eons, he finally came to the reason why most in the House were present. |
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| It's a rock place, a world of eons and eras and millions of years conflated to timelessness. |
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| Over the eons the lunar spin rate has been damped by Earth's gravity, because the Moon's mass distribution is not uniform. |
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| The record has been much deformed, reconstituted, and obliterated during the subsequent Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons. |
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| Minerals from the ash and the silicon-rich water replaced the trees' organic material and, over the eons, assumed their form as quartz. |
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| The confusion can be traced to the uniformitarian expectations that the deposits were laid down over eons of time. |
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| Here in the temperate northern latitudes trees have adapted over eons of regular annual seasons. |
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| I just noticed this morning that the pumpkin I planted eons ago has finally sprouted in a major way. |
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| After what felt like eons, the light changed to green, but the do-not-walk signal remained. |
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| Over eons these sediments became buried beneath layers of mud and ash caused by forest fires, more volcanic eruptions, rains and upheavals. |
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| This would be consistent with liquid methane falling on the surface for eons. |
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| Despite our lack of knowledge, or perhaps because of it, researchers have divided the Precambrian into three time periods called eons. |
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| Stories became legends and, ta-da, people make important financial and emotional decisions based on them eons later. |
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| People do not know this, but there are no human rights on reserves because the Liberals, for the past eons, said it was just not a priority. |
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| This can safely be assigned to the dustbin of nonsense, on the shelf next to the notion that the Egyptians used to zip around the sky in airplanes a few eons ago. |
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| Women have been slaving away in the kitchen for eons, maybe a little bit longer. |
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| A wanderer in the vast Nevada desert comes upon yet another rock formation, a mass of craggy geometric shapes limned in the gentle hues that express eons of sedimentation. |
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| All this great knowledge was discovered eons ago by our rishis. |
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| She could have been sitting there for eons for all she knew, the shield of blankness and unawareness firmly in place and ignoring any questions asked. |
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| If he hadn't been so skilled, he may have perished eons ago. |
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| These volcanic rifts gird the globe like seams on a baseball, making ocean crust and, over the eons, moving the continents around like putty. |
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| But the time when Mr. Bieber's powers extended only to malls feels like eons ago. |
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| The design itself, of course, is Suzanne Collins's design on the book cover from eons ago. |
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| Mitochondria are former bacteria that were enslaved eons ago to generate energy for larger cells. |
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| Clara had painted them for me yesterday morning, before the party — eons ago. |
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| All of this indicates that the interior of the moon may be liquid today, even though it should have been frozen eons ago. |
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| The Türlersee lake in its natural paradise was created eons ago by a natural disaster. |
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| Fossil fuels release CO2 from eons ago, creating an extra load of CO2 in the atmosphere. |
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| An outcrop of bare rocks jutting out of the hill, hewn into different shapes by eons of wind and rain, appeared like a sculpture gallery of Henry Moore. |
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| The real award, however, went to Girls, the first Best Comedy award not given to Modern Family seemingly in eons. |
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| In the eons since those corals were formed, two hours have been added to every day. |
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| Many wild hatchlings of these earlier returnees have fallen prey to Galapagos hawks, a natural predator that has coexisted with tortoises for eons. |
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| For eons, the planet veered wildly between extremes, impersonating a range of celestial bodies. |
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| The completion of the often speculated nine-film series has been a holy grail for fans for eons. |
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| Past time on Earth, as inferred from the rock record, is divided into four immense periods of time called eons. |
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| Such biostratigraphic boundaries separate larger or smaller units of time that are defined as eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. |
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| We can debate for eons in here, we can go on for months and months but it falls upon deaf ears. |
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| Listen to the Voice that echoes across the eons of time and yet speaks anew in this moment. |
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| When you reach Pemberton, you will have seen a vast range of natural beauty created over eons. |
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| For the first time in eons we mention wharves and infrastructure which the government decided to divest itself of. |
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| The geomagnetic field changes from place to place, and on time scales ranging from seconds to decades to eons. |
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| I used the example because marriage brings with it something special which has been recognized for eons. |
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| Visit historic lighthouses and Admirals Arch and Remarkable Rocks, sculpted by eons of wind in Flinders Chase National Park. |
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| The universe is a seamless whole, evolving over eons of cosmic time and producing conditions where life, and then mind, can emerge. |
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| The mystical chemistry of Aquarius engages many seers for eons of time to know the key of the Aquarian magic. |
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| In the auditorium eons of dust collected in the pale green stage curtain, sending up a billowing fog of allergens each time the folds were drawn or opened. |
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| The wolf has had to wait eons for humans to become wise enough to coexist with it. |
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| Moving further west, you will arrive among denuded volcanic buttes that have calmed down through the eons of geological history but still hang on to their mystic charm. |
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| This texture may be the upshot of eons of micrometeorite hits that filled the soil. |
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| More recently, however, those eons have been subdivided into eras of their own. |
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| There are eons of writings on this issue and a multitude of quotes from members on the Conservative benches in support of the Atlantic accord and the Saskatchewan agreement. |
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| A global ocean has existed in one form or another on Earth for eons, and the notion dates back to classical antiquity in the form of Oceanus. |
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| The Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons were as a whole formerly called the Precambrian. |
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| This relationship between forests and disturbances has been ongoing for eons, allowing forests to renew themselves and maintain their productivity. |
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| For eons and eons of years, I have nurtured my children so that one day they awaken from that dream of thinking that they are separated from the life. |
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| The genealogical tree of this spiritual lineage begins with the seven buddhas, consisting of six mythological Buddhas of previous eons as well as Siddhartha Gautama, or Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha of the current age. |
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| For the Mets, the All-Star break feels like eons ago. |
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| It is the being that you spent eons and eons searching for. |
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| I don't recall hearing food industry or hospitality industry individuals saying we can't put this high sodium product on our menu or on our grocery shelves because Canadian palates will require eons to adjust to this. |
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| The presence of piperine confirms that the red planet could have supported life eons before the present time, encouraging the hope of a future landing of humans on Mars. |
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| We are at the heart of the Colorado Plateau where tremendous geologic activity eons ago created a unique desert and mountain environment cut with deep river canyons. |
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| Although the UWO meteor group has noted a decrease in the quantity of meteors hitting Earth compared to eons ago, the Earth is still regularly hit by a large number during a meteor shower. |
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| For eons, mother's milk has proven to be the best food for newborns. |
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| Marriage, for eons in the varied states of the world, has always been a union between a man and a woman, a requirement that is necessary for the perpetuation of the human race. |
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| Everyone knows that tea leaves have been read to foretell the future for eons, but who knew tea bags fell into that category? |
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| For all we know, they come with the same hopes and dreams and fears as those first people who stood on the edge of Asia and then started striding over the ice towards the outline of an unknown continent countless eons ago. |
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| Over eons it becomes compressed and produces coal and oil and gas. |
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| Diversity of echinoids have been fluctuating across the eons. |
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| Sometimes artificial light becomes an evolutionary trap as the age-old biological imperatives of a species, which helped it survive for eons, turn into liabilities. |
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| It is a matter of pride to me that this column went table thumpingly long on Japan in November 2012, eons ago and Japan is up 100 per cent plus since that time. |
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| However, there is evidence for the presence of water on the early Earth, in the Hadean and Archean eons, leading to what is known as the faint young Sun paradox. |
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| Eons and eras are larger subdivisions than periods while periods themselves may be divided into epochs and ages. |
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