millennium
Example Sentences
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This ancient strain infected people across Eurasia for nearly two millennia before disappearing.
From Science Daily
The opera ends with Akhnaten’s son, presumably Tutankhamun, restoring polytheism, and then, once the staging jumps millennia into the future, it’s rediscovered by modern-day tourists.
From Los Angeles Times
After the turn of the millennium, Schofield went behind the camera as a producer for several projects.
From Los Angeles Times
At the turn of the millennium, private investments in technology soared and crashed alongside stocks, wiping out investors who jumped on the bandwagon at the wrong time.
Hawthorne’s Rome is a city of artists who gather from all over the world to drink in the cultural dynamism bottled up in its millennia of great art.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.