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Sentence Examples About 450 million years ago, a meteor struck north-central Oklahoma, creating an impact crater - an astrobleme - more than eight miles wide. A few years ago, the town enjoyed a nice boomlet, but since then times have been tough. Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago. About 700 years ago this giant lake began to drain due to tectonic movement. When I was an apprentice many years ago, the 125 used to come through Markinch station in Fife at 1.27pm every weekday. The Sami are estimated to have adopted a Uralic language less than 2,500 years ago. Teeth and part of a jawbone excavated in 1981 were dated to 225,000 years ago. The retreat of the glaciers 15,000 years ago allowed groups of humans from Asia to migrate to the Americas. Around 800 million years ago, there was a notable increase in the complexity and number of eukaryotes species in the fossil record. Oceanic sulfide levels decreased around 800 million years ago, which supports the importance of oxygen in eukaryotic diversity. The Ordovician meteor event is a proposed shower of meteors that occurred during the Middle Ordovician period, roughly 470 million years ago. Arguably, they might be considered distinct species, with gene flow having ceased at least a million years ago, but probably more. The European polecat is the sole ancestor of the ferret, which was domesticated more than 2000 years ago for the purpose of hunting vermin. Cetaceans' closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses, having diverged about 40 million years ago. Both the fossil record and analysis of mitochondrial DNA suggest the divergence occurred by 10 to 20 million years ago. I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Sherds have been found in China and Japan from a period between 12,000 and perhaps as long as 18,000 years ago. Georges Bank was part of the North American mainland as recently as 12,000 years ago. The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since. The ogopogo made no attempt to devour the sailboat crew, as he is reported to have done some years ago in the case of some Indians. Show More Sentences The land on which Pembrokeshire is today was established approximately 60 million years ago by a combination of uplift and falling sea levels. Some paleontologists suggest that animals appeared much earlier, possibly as early as 1 billion years ago. Most modern peat bogs formed 12,000 years ago in high latitudes after the glaciers retreated at the end of the last ice age. The ophiuroids diverged in the Early Ordovician, about 500 million years ago. Records of bird migration were made as much as 3,000 years ago by the Ancient Greek writers Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus and Aristotle. The killer whale is one of 35 species in the oceanic dolphin family, which first appeared about 11 million years ago. The evolutionary split between the two groups is believed to have begun two million years ago. The first split in the orca population, between the North Pacific transients and the rest, occurred an estimated 700,000 years ago. A volcanic winter is said to have taken place around 70,000 years ago after the supereruption of Lake Toba on Sumatra island in Indonesia. Whales direct lineage began in the early Eocene, more than 50 million years ago, with early artiodactyls. Mysticetes evolved baleen around 25 million years ago and lost their teeth. Since the late Eocene, about 40 million years ago, cetaceans populated the subtropical oceans and no longer emerged on land. Corsica was formed about 250 million years ago with the uplift of a granite backbone on the western side. About 50 million years ago sedimentary rock was pressed against this granite, forming the schists of the eastern side. The first recorded human presence in the southern area of the peninsula and Denmark dates from 12,000 years ago. Numerous Acheulean flint tools and remains of animals dating to around 500,000 years ago were found at the site. Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago. Modern humans first arrived in Iberia, from the north on foot, about 35,000 years ago. The first human settlement in Crete dates before 130,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic age. The present continental slope in the Norwegian Sea marks the border between Norway and Greenland as it stood approximately 250 million years ago. Show More Sentences In contrast, the world's climate was cloudier and wetter than today near the start of the warm Atlantic Period of 8000 years ago. Some of these isostatic movements triggered large earthquakes in Scandinavia about 9,000 years ago. These mammals became extinct when the glacial period Age ended about 11,700 years ago. Between 12,000 and 9000 years ago much of the Gulf floor would have remained exposed, only being flooded by the sea after 8,000 years ago. The latest work indicates that deposits of three glacial episodes since 150,000 to 200,000 years ago are preserved on the volcano. Glacial moraines on the volcano formed about 70,000 years ago and from about 40,000 to 13,000 years ago. Plateosaurus thus lived probably from approximately 214 to 204 million years ago. The first land plants probably evolved from shallow freshwater charophyte algae much like Chara almost 500 million years ago. Fossils of isolated land plant spores suggest land plants may have been around as long as 475 million years ago. Their evolution dates back to the Triassic some 245 to 208 million years ago. We had stopped throwing stones in view of anyone except ourselves years ago, after we saw the looks on the adults' faces when we outskipped them. At the end of the last ice age approximately 10,000 years ago, large proglacial lakes were a widespread feature in the northern hemisphere. The marine incursion, caused by the rising level of the Mediterranean, apparently occurred around 7,600 years ago. It reached its largest volume around 8,500 years ago, when joined with Lake Agassiz. The Lake Toba event, approximately between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago, caused a massive drop in sea levels. The subducting plates pulled Japan eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago. Results of research on the footprints were announced on 7 February 2014, and identified them as dating to more than 800,000 years ago. The slabs preserved the impressions of leaves from oaks, elms, beeches, birches and willows that had lived thousands of years ago. In 2000, a black flint handaxe, dating to between 600,000 and 800,000 years ago, was found by a man walking on the beach. Brown bears entered Europe about 250,000 years ago, and North Africa shortly after. Show More Sentences The species entered Alaska 100,000 years ago, though they did not move south until 13,000 years ago. They, like anyone else carrying haplogroup U5 today, share an ancestor with Cheddar Man of many thousands of years ago through his maternal line. The ice was as thick as three kilometres during the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago. The Alpine Orogeny began 200 million years ago and continues to the present day. The shock wave began piling up the western ranges, and then the main ranges, around 120 million years ago. By 20 million years ago, fossils recognizably belonging to the current families such as Muridae had emerged. The first rodents arrived in Australia via Indonesia around 5 million years ago. Cervus genus ancestors of red deer first appear in fossil records 12 million years ago during the Miocene in Eurasia. Its range encompasses some of the most densely populated areas in the world, where forests were cleared hundreds of years ago. They are believed to have become associated with humans around 10,000 years ago. The oldest fossils tentatively assigned to this genus are from the Late Miocene, less than 10 million years ago. The genus first appeared in the Miocene geological period about 20 million years ago, originating in what is now central Asia. Genetic sequencing indicates orchids may have arisen earlier, 76 to 84 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous. The symbiotic association between the Glomeromycota and plants is ancient, with evidence dating to 400 million years ago. The mycorrhizal symbiosis is ancient, dating to at least 400 million years ago. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4 billion years ago. Fifty years ago, the common perception was that water was an infinite resource. The region's oldest known beads were made from Nassarius shells and worn as personal ornaments 72,000 years ago. Humans first settled the Americas from Asia between 42,000 and 17,000 years ago. Habitation sites are known in Alaska and the Yukon from at least 20,000 years ago, with suggested ages of up to 40,000 years. Show More Sentences Widespread habitation of the Americas occurred during the late glacial maximum, from 16,000 to 13,000 years ago. Evidence of the first human habitation of the area by Neanderthals dates back to 125,000 years ago. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. Around 16,500 years ago, the glaciers began melting, allowing people to move south and east into Canada and beyond. Natives of North America began practicing farming approximately 4,000 years ago, late in the Archaic period of North American cultures. The Gulf of Mexico formed approximately 300 million years ago as a result of plate tectonics. The ridge is central to the breakup of the hypothetical supercontinent of Pangaea that began some 180 million years ago. Formed millions of years ago by volcanism, they have since subsided far below sea level. It is believed that rising sea levels submerged these around 8,000 years ago. A brief complete reversal, known as the Laschamp event, occurred only 41,000 years ago during the last glacial period. With the formation of the Isthmus of Panama 3 million years ago, it ultimately lost its connection to the Pacific. It also allows for extended periods of social learning and language acquisition in juvenile humans which may have begun 2 million years ago. Fossils at 20 million years ago include fragments attributed to Victoriapithecus, the earliest Old World monkey. The youngest of the Miocene hominoids, Oreopithecus, is from coal beds in Italy that have been dated to 9 million years ago. Some authors have pushed back the appearance of fully modern behavior to around 80,000 years ago in order to incorporate the South African data. Unlike Europe, where initial migration occurred around 50,000 years ago, human remains have been dated in China to around 100,000 years ago. Fossils from Lake Mungo, Australia, have been dated to about 42,000 years ago. Other fossils from a site called Madjedbebe have been dated to at least 65,000 years ago. Tianyuan is similar in morphology to Minatogawa Man, modern humans dated between 17,000 and 19,000 years ago and found on Okinawa Island, Japan. Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa by about 200,000 years ago. Show More Sentences Chinese researchers question this extinction, claiming that modern humans were present in China already 80,000 years ago. The area around Lake Malawi, today heavily forested, was a desert approximately 135,000 to 90,000 years ago. By some 70,000 years ago, a part of the bearers of mitochondrial haplogroup L3 migrated from East Africa into the Near East. This southern coastal dispersion would have occurred before the dispersion through the Levant approximately 45,000 years ago. Beads made of perforated ostrich egg shells found at the site have been dated to 40,000 years ago. The Bering land bridge is a postulated route of human migration to the Americas from Asia about 20,000 years ago. Fossils in China demonstrate a migration of Asian mammals into North America around 55 million years ago. By 20 million years ago, evidence in North America shows a further interchange of mammalian species. Archaeologists' most precise determinations at present suggest that this radiocarbon age is equal to roughly 13,200 to 12,900 calendar years ago. Remains found at the Channel Islands of California place coastal Paleoindians there 12,500 years ago. In 2004, worked stone tools were found at Topper in South Carolina that have been dated by radiocarbon techniques possibly to 50,000 years ago. Two uncalibrated radiocarbon dates on carbon from the hearths came in at approximately 24,000 and 22,000 years ago. By examining other bottlenecks all Eurasian men are descended from a man who lived 69,000 years ago. The site of origin is unknown but likely in either Asia or Africa approximately 88,000 years ago. It is believed to have arisen in Central Asia approximately 32,000 years ago. The Solutrean toolmaking industry disappeared from Europe around 17,000 years ago, replaced by the lithic technology of the Magdalenian culture. Clovis toolmaking technology appears in the archaeological record in much of North America between 12,800 and 13,500 years ago. Geologically speaking, Cape Cod is quite young, having been laid down some 16,000 to 20,000 years ago. Oysters first arrived in the Chesapeake 5,000 years ago, and shortly after, local Indians began eating them. Testudines were suggested to have diverged from other diapsids between 200 and 279 million years ago, though the debate is far from settled. Show More Sentences Less direct geological evidence indicates that CO2 values higher than this were last seen about 20 million years ago. They began to exhibit evidence of behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago. Around ten thousand years ago, humans developed agriculture, which substantially altered their diet. About 700,000 years ago, a new Lower Paleolithic tool, the hand ax, appeared. Most scholars date the arrival of humans in Australia at 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, with a possible range of up to 125,000 years ago. Cattle were domesticated from the wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and Pakistan some 10,500 years ago. Kites were used approximately 2,800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available. Then, eight years ago, when I was 24, I had my pelvis sawn in three and pinned back together again with four long metal rods. There is evidence suggesting that Paleolithic societies were gathering wild cereals for food use at least as early as 30,000 years ago. Ninety million years ago what is now the chalk downland of Northern Europe was ooze accumulating at the bottom of a great sea. At the time the fossils were laid down, between 125 and 110 million years ago, the island was at a latitude similar to that of North Africa. A former river valley flooded by rising sea levels 6,000 years ago, Poole Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world. The downlands of Ballard Down are formed of chalk with some bands of flint, and were formed approximately 66 million years ago. These are also part of the same chalk band and only a few thousand years ago were connected to Ballard Down. They separated from other crocodilians during the Eocene epoch, about 55 million years ago. One of the earliest known monotremes was Teinolophos, which lived about 120 million years ago in Australia. For example, the earliest known bat dates from about 50 million years ago, only 16 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs. The earliest known ancestor of primates is Archicebus achilles from around 55 million years ago. The current Holocene interglacial began at the end of the Pleistocene, about 11,700 years ago. I have the greatest respect for you, George, but Lord, you're no nearer catching me now than four years ago when I started. Show More Sentences About 25 million years ago, a shift in plate tectonic movements began to contort and crumple the region. Rice was domesticated in China between 13,500 and 8,200 years ago, followed by mung, soy and azuki beans. Sheep were domesticated in Mesopotamia between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago. Sugarcane and some root vegetables were domesticated in New Guinea around 9,000 years ago. Cotton was domesticated in Peru by 5,600 years ago, and was independently domesticated in Eurasia at an unknown time. In Mesoamerica, wild teosinte was domesticated to maize by 6,000 years ago. The quality of the fossil record greatly increases from 130,000 years ago onwards. They are believed to have been a group killed and butchered about 50,000 years ago. From mtDNA analysis estimates, the two shared a common ancestor about 500,000 years ago. A 2007 study pushes the point of divergence back to around 800,000 years ago. They calculated that the mating must have taken place about 100,000 years ago. About 55,000 years ago, the climate began to fluctuate wildly from extreme cold conditions to mild cold and back in a matter of decades. Neanderthals died out in Europe between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago, apparently coinciding with the start of a very cold period. The Venus figurine known as the Venus of Hohle Fels, dates to some 40,000 years ago. The oldest African petroglyphs are dated to approximately the Mesolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Around 7,000 to 9,000 years ago, other precursors of writing systems, such as pictographs and ideograms, began to appear. Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back to at least the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period about 40,000 years ago. South African art includes the oldest art objects in the world, which were discovered in a South African cave, and dated from 75,000 years ago. More advanced tools, such as the bow and arrow began to be developed approximately 10000 years ago. Tens of thousands of years ago, waves of people migrated from eastern Siberia across the Bering Strait into North America to settle. Show More Sentences These visits influenced him into believing the shift from Neanderthal to modern humans 40,000 to 35,000 years ago was sudden rather than gradual. Similar remains, of those that reached the European Russian Arctic 40,000 years ago, have also been found. As the earliest known harpoons, these weapons were made and used 90,000 years ago, most likely to spear catfishes. The use of oil lamps began thousands of years ago and continues to this day, although not commonly anymore. A point that might be from a bone needle dates to 61,000 years ago and was discovered in Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Ivory needles were also found dated to 30,000 years ago at the Kostenki site in Russia. People lived on the edge of the desert thousands of years ago since the end of the last glacial period. Dates given recently are usually earlier than those given more than 10 years ago. An advance began after the Last Glacial Maximum, which brought the Adriatic to a high point at about 5,500 years ago. During that period, some 240 million years ago, the area was a shallow tropical lagoon. Until recently, the X and Y chromosomes were thought to have diverged around 300 million years ago. This culture is thought to have been present between 6,500 and 7,500 years ago. The other two races arose by survivors' escaping in different directions after a major catastrophe hit the earth 5,000 years ago. The history of the Arabian Peninsula goes back to the beginnings of human habitation in Arabia up to 130,000 years ago. There is evidence that human habitation in the Arabian Peninsula dates back to about 106,000 to 130,000 years ago. According to molecular data, the New World and Old World camelids diverged 11 million years ago. By 35 million years ago, the Poebrotherium was the size of a goat and had many more traits similar to camels and llamas. As human population density rose on the island, deforestation accelerated beginning around 1400 years ago. Ancient Sumerian men and women were possibly the first to invent and wear lipstick, about 5,000 years ago. The Persian Gulf is geologically very young, having been formed around 15,000 years ago. Show More Sentences This water channel which separates the Iran Plateau from the Arabia Plate, has enjoyed an Iranian Identity since at least 2200 years ago. They might have split 24 years ago, but the Smiths remain as popular as ever, and not just among those who remember them first time around. The southern branch of these people was established on the north peninsula of Newfoundland by 5,000 years ago. Further research has hypothesised that this practice began around 11,000 years ago. Fifteen million years ago, the main tectonic uplift phase of the Andean chain started. The island of Mauritius is relatively young geologically, having been created by volcanic activity some 8 million years ago. The first documented human presence in the Banda Islands comes from a rockshelter site on Pulau Ay that was in use at least 8000 years ago. Most of the residents are Marshallese, who are of Micronesian origin and migrated from Asia several thousand years ago. It most likely evolved from a terrestrial African rodent virus between 68,000 and 16,000 years ago. How does it work, though? It's based on the observation made some 200 years ago that electricity can change the shape of flames. He committed acts which put him afoul of Empire law, details classified, twenty-six years ago. Many thousands of years ago, an Africoon was loafing in the dust in front of his hut when he felt the need for a snack. Even three years ago, the thought of spending two hours, let alone a whole day, without my mobile would have been anathema. Guerin Woodgate Jr., 29, says he never thought much about his circumcision until he stumbled upon some anti-circ Web sites about ten years ago. He said increased baitfish numbers after an upwelling of nutrient-rich water three years ago had contributed to the increase in shark numbers. The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago. Thirty years ago this ford was on the track of the bunjaras, and I have seen two thousand pack-bullcoks cross in one night. I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth. Many years ago, a Mr. Torbit brought forward a Ceresian scheme for producing a disease-proof potato. I wanted an ancient shark tooth, a chomper that last saw use by a predator perhaps 25 million years ago. Show More Sentences This has been known for centuries, but it was only twenty years ago that the site of the biological clock was identified. In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues. My attention was called to this many years ago, very shortly after the introduction of cocain as a local anesthetic. Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures. The rest of it is very good and I wish I had had something of the sort available when I started congoing thirty years ago... ulp. Forty years ago one who had known it well described it to me as a crincum-crancum kind of house, full of ins and outs. Father Juliano declared bankruptcy after building only the prototype, but the car was restored a few years ago by a customizer in England. Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria. A deva prasnam conducted in July 1975 revealed that the image had been consecrated by a saint from Tirupati more than one thousand years ago. Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene. The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. Ten years ago, Frank Buono, a retired employee of the National Park Service, objected to the cross, saying it violated the establishment clause. I am a huge Fanilow and had the good fortune of meeting and spending a little time with Barry a few years ago. Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy. The Cold War was over, everyone was at peace, the U.S. was cruising along with a big surplus. Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Reggie woke her from a frightless slumber years ago with a tarantula in a shoebox, disappointed when it didn't make her scream. Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline. The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago. Mr. Guirl is a native of Indiana, and his partner, Mr. H. A. Daggett, who was born in Maine, joined him at Clay City about six years ago. Show More Sentences That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. Settlement by anatomically modern humans of what was to become the United Kingdom occurred in waves beginning by about 30,000 years ago. The end of the last glacial period was about 11,700 years ago, while the end of the last ice age has not yet come. As the ice retreated 10,000 years ago the lake reconnected to the sea, becoming brackish and then fully saline once again. During the Late Cretaceous, about 85 million years ago, all of modern mainland Europe except for Scandinavia was a scattering of islands. Analysis indicated that it was a Plateosaurus from 199 to 216 million years ago. The island probably became separated from the mainland about 125,000 years ago, during the Ipswichian interglacial. About 50,000 years ago, there was a marked increase in the diversity of artifacts. Between 45,000 and 43,000 years ago, this new tool technology spread with human migration to Europe. He argues that almost everywhere, whether Asia, Africa or Europe, before 50,000 years ago all the stone tools are much alike and unsophisticated. The town's most famous bridge, though, is the Transporter Bridge, built over 100 years ago. After all, if these measures could've succeeded, they would've been implemented five years ago when the world economy hadn't yet hit the skids. During the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time. The Last Glacial Maximum, the maximum extent of glaciation within the last glacial period, was approximately 22,000 years ago. Around 11,700 years ago marked the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch, which includes the Holocene glacial retreat. The Pinedale lasted from approximately 30,000 to 10,000 years ago and was at its greatest extent between 23,500 and 21,000 years ago. It began about 30,000 years ago, reached its greatest advance 21,000 years ago, and ended about 10,000 years ago. These mammoths lived in northern Africa and disappeared about 3 or 4 million years ago. The earliest known proboscideans, the clade that contains the elephants, existed about 55 million years ago around the Tethys Sea area. The family Elephantidae is known to have existed six million years ago in Africa, and includes the living elephants and the mammoths. Show More Sentences Recent research of sediments in Alaska indicates mammoths survived on the American mainland until 10,000 years ago. Their predecessor, the steppe bison appeared in the North American fossil record around 190,000 years ago. The genetic information also indicated that a second, Pleistocene migration of bison over the land bridge occurred 21,000 to 45,000 years ago. About 40,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans entered the Iberian Peninsula from Southern France. In the Old World, humans learned to smelt metals in prehistoric times, more than 8000 years ago. As we have seen, even a hundred years ago icestorms could have a devastating effect on electric service in a major metropolitan area. However, until the Destruction of the Second Temple, about two thousand years ago, taking Nazirite vows was a common feature of the religion. Danny had christened himself the Italian Stallion years ago in reference to his family's Italian heritage and the name had stuck. She was certain she was about to kick up dust about her mother just as Setsuka had done about Mitsu's death eighteen years ago. From 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, as the ice melted, sea levels rose separating Ireland from Great Britain and also creating the Isle of Man. The Indian subcontinent drifted northeastwards, colliding with the Eurasian plate nearly 55 million years ago, towards the end of Paleocene. The Gulf of Mexico did not exist 250 million years ago when there was but one supercontinent, Pangea. The oldest rocks date back to the early Tertiary Era, some 60 million years ago. The Ordovician spanned from approximately 488 million years to approximately 443 million years ago. The Permian spanned from 299 to 252 million years ago and was the last period of the Paleozoic Era. The bones in their fins eventually evolved into legs and they became the first tetrapods, 390 million years ago, and began to develop lungs. At the end of the last glaciation, about 10,000 years ago, the area's ecosystem was characterised by a largely treeless tundra. Woodland was far more extensive on the North Downs prior to human clearance 4000 to 5000 years ago. This took place between about 478,000 to 424,000 years ago, and was responsible for the diversion of the River Thames onto its present course. During the most recent Devensian glaciation, which ended a mere 10,000 years ago, the icesheet reached south to Wolverhampton and Cardiff. Show More Sentences And since this happened years ago, I'll go ahead and fill you in that nothing else lesbiany happened on the show. One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden. About 500 million years ago, plants and fungi colonised the land and were soon followed by arthropods and other animals. Haplogroup R originated 26,800 years ago in Central Asia during the Last Ice Age. The first palaces in Russia were built about a thousand years ago for the Grand Dukes of Kiev. Two years ago we were going to Mars, and that sort of didn't happen...and now there's, like, manimal. We have just changed horses at Birmingham where I was two years ago and we visited the manufactories which are very curious. The earliest paintings on the cave walls are believed to be of the Mesolithic period, dating to 30,000 years ago. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book. They have won 7 Championships and 6 Challenge Cups, but have not won a major trophy since 1962, some 53 years ago. Some years ago there was a demand from Irish quarters that the blue ground of the golden harp on the royal standard should be changed to green. Migration from the Black Sea area into Europe started some 45,000 years ago, probably along the Danubian corridor. These early humans used manganese and iron oxides to paint pictures and may have created one early lunar calendar around 15,000 years ago. These Happisburgh footprints were dated to at least 800,000 years ago, the early Pleistocene. The discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The earliest authenticated human remains in South Asia date to about 30,000 years ago. Epochal volcanism and climatic changes 20 million years ago forced a mass extinction. England has many prominent private schools, often founded hundreds of years ago, which are known as public schools or independent schools. Show More Sentences Despite having signed the protocol more than twenty years ago, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey have never ratified it. Tens of millions of homeowners who had substantial equity in their homes two years ago have little or nothing today. The oldest rocks of Scotland are the Lewisian gneisses, which were formed in the Precambrian period, up to 3 billion years ago. Ben Nevis is all that remains of a Devonian volcano that met a cataclysmic end in the Carboniferous period around 350 million years ago. Ireland was formed in two distinct parts and slowly joined together, uniting about 440 million years ago. It tells the story of a mother who brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago. These individuals lived between 3,500 and 5,500 years ago, after the transition to farming in southwest Europe. These are amongst the oldest rocks in Europe, having been formed in the Precambrian period up to three billion years ago. Europe's present shape dates to the late Tertiary period about five million years ago. A more intricate triadic relationship was advanced 15 years ago in a multitherapist project headed by Bieber. Burton's progress as an actor is such that already he is able to make good all the lacks of a few short years ago. It's a version of events that 23 years ago The Sun went along with and for that we're deeply ashamed and profoundly sorry. Discovery stated 'enough is enough' and claimed that Sky is paying less for its channels than it was ten years ago. There is evidence that human habitation in the Arabian Peninsula dates back to about 125,000 years ago. Fossils found in Kenya suggest that primates roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. The location has been inhabited by humans since the Neolithic era, about 5,000 years ago, attracted to its warm mineral springs. The eruption of the Toba supervolcano, approximately 70,000 years ago, was one of the largest eruptions ever, and a global catastrophe. The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. Just 370,000 years ago, the planet would have appeared more white than red. Although the last glacial period ended more than 8,000 years ago, its effects can still be felt today. Find more words! 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