aeons ago

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For soil is in part a creation of life, born of a marvellous interaction of life and inert matter aeons ago.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

What it actually does is return us to the world of Erich von Däniken's 1968 bestseller Chariots of the Gods, about humankind being bred on Earth aeons ago by spaceman-aliens.

From The Guardian • May 30, 2012

I interviewed George aeons ago in, of all places, Southend-on-Sea, where he was lying low with his first in-laws in a terraced house just off the prom.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2010

According to the most generally accepted theory, aeons ago a star passed near the Sun and sucked great swirls of Sun matter into space.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of four miles or more.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson