millennia

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Reid said if several centimetres are lost to fire, then "you're losing decades, centuries, potentially millennia of peatland".

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Mr. Wyman ends “Lost Worlds” by asking us to imagine what our descendants five or six millennia in the future might say of us based on the material debris of our daily lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Although the concept of flavored yogurts has existed for millennia across the diaspora, raita is believed to have first appeared in print around the 19th century.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

The Al-Bass site is centred on a necropolis that dates back three millennia to Tyre's time as a major Phoenician city and was still in use until the Arab conquests of the 7h Century.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

George’s ancestors had lived in this part of the world for millennia and had been the ones to greet the first French trappers who ventured north from Montreal in the 1600s.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz