To replace earlier finds, oil companies moved offshore, where rivers have been depositing petroleum-forming sediments for millions of years.
However, common sense would dictate that the possibility certainly exists through the man-made release of carbon sequestered for millions of years.
These hydrocarbons of course lay in the earth for millions of years.
These have been repositories of oil and gas for millions of years and could hold CO2 in place for a very long time.
And, secondly -- as for millions of years -- the chance to feast undisturbed on as many jellyfish as a turtle can eat.
Plants and animals that have survived and thrived in the brutal conditions of Antarctica for millions of years have had to make plenty of adjustments.
Scientists have had only 20 years to study the mysterious virus but it is probably been lurking in the African jungle for millions of years.
For the ocean to continue to do what's it's done for millions of years and serve the needs of a rapidly expanding human population, it needs to be healthy.
"The water that we drink every day has been around for millions of years and circulated through who knows what -- dinosaurs, black bears and panthers, " said David Czamanske of the Sierra Club.
This remoteness also means that these bacteria have not been disturbed, and it is possible to collect samples from areas that have been undisturbed by any kind of activity for millions of years.
Woodada drilled ahead to become a successful conventional gas producer, while those shales of 33 years ago are only now starting to yield the gas which has been trapped and ignored for millions of years.
Some researchers have suggested that materials produced in the Sun's atmosphere are pulled into the star's interior, where they circulate in convection currents for millions of years before making their way back to the outer atmospheric layers.
Instead of trying to grapple with every single one of the risks around them, investors should emulate the lowly cockroach, which has survived for millions of years thanks to a defence mechanism that is rudimentary but good at dealing with unanticipated threats.
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Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today.
That is because for tens of millions of years the greatest collision of all between the earth's plates has been happening there.
Opossums are very slow and stupid animals but have survived and thrived for hundreds of millions of years, longer than the majority of macrofaunal species.
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Facebook has denied allegations that third-party advertisers have been able to access sensitive data for millions of Facebook users for years.
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Thomas White, Secretary of the Army, was an Enron executive for over 10 years and held millions of dollars in stocks and options when appointed.
For years, millions of us have been voluntarily leaving little bits and pieces on ourselves on the web.
The messaging needs to be a cultural movement that will have meaning to millions of people for years to come.
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The blades are vibrated from side to side, as well as up and down (edge fatigue and flap fatigue) for millions of cycles, simulating twenty years of activity in the real world.
Bush has spent much of the past two years raising millions of dollars for GOP candidates.
Drillers have learned to drill horizontally into long, thin seams of shale and other rock that holds oil, instead of searching for rare underground pools of hydrocarbons that have accumulated over millions of years.
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Niacin, a B vitamin, has been used for forty years to help millions of patients control their cholesterol levels.
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But the rational case for investing your long-term savings will come to the fore for many millions of people in the next few years.
Forcing loyal users through a usage quirk at every boot, just to arrive at the starting point that millions of people have loved for years, is wishful thinking at best, user hostility at worst -- and self-damaging in either event.
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For the past century in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, ancient fossils dating back millions of years continue to emerge suggesting a common ancestor for humans.
The requirement to file an annual return would not seem to be one of the more iffy provisions in the Tax Code, especially since Snipes made millions of dollars during each of the three years of non-filing for which he was convicted.
Her cable network, OWN, has yet to draw the millions of viewers who watched Oprah for 25 years.
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