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millennium

noun as in 1000 years

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Pieces of pottery and other evidence found inside the sprawling underground tomb revealed that it belonged to Thutmose II, a young pharaoh who died an untimely death more than three millennia ago.

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The early millennia of our species’ history — hundreds of thousands of years — is the subject of “Human,” an exhilarating five-part BBC series premiering Wednesday as part of the PBS series “Nova.”

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Death - a theme that also features in Dawson's Creek, another popular show from the turn of the millennium - hangs over the second and third series of TSITP.

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Mann was publicly vilified over his research showing that average global temperatures had risen sharply since 1900 after about a millennium of gradual cooling, producing what became known as the “hockey stick graph.”

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England have played Scotland 34 times in total, and, apart from those two defeats from another millennia, have won every time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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