This causes debris to clump together in that region, creating a planet in just a few thousand years.
Roll back the tape a few thousand years to when every element of life was controlled by the tribe.
Yet these anomalies are among the youngest pulsars known, in some cases mere babes a few thousand years old.
This would require a pair of red dwarfs to encounter the solar system and perform an elaborate gravitational dance with it for a few thousand years.
Unlike biologists, linguists do not have fossils to guide them through the past (apart from a few thousand years of records from the few tongues spoken by literate societies).
Fast forward a few thousand years and according to the ancient Greek legend, Jason took the mythological Golden Fleece from King Aietes in Colchis, which is now part of Georgia.
So when you come to symbolic gestures, there is much more variation because the gestures are more recent--at most only a couple of thousand years old and probably only a few hundred years old.
Tackling a Travelling Salesman Problem that has lots of locations with a supercomputer can take years because even the most powerful supercomputers use only a few thousand processors.
Rendering software that costs several thousand dollars per user just a few years ago can now be had for several hundred dollars, said Digital Domain creative director of software Doug Roble.
Mr. Campagna and his colleagues argue that at some time in the past few hundred thousand years, during a part of the ice age when much of South America was covered with grasslands, an ancestral species of capuchino expanded rapidly across the continent.
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Increased streaming libraries and falling DVD sales probably account for most of the above data, and I can easily see a time a few years from now where video consumption is ENTIRELY streaming, but all you collectors with a thousand DVD boxes on your shelf always yell at me when I say things like that.
But we could announce our attention to reach this level within a few years, and start expanding by a few hundred thousand a year now.
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Over the next 10 years the Groupon investment just might create a few thousand jobs, and return a nice bit of loot to the state treasury.
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