Millions of years later these would become the giant rocks called Half Dome and El Capitan in Yosemite Park.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

We have certain instincts that are there and have been formed either God-given or evolutionary-given for millions of years that have been formed.

我们有生而有之的本能,或上天赐与或经几百万年,在进化中形成。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It's happened over the course of millions of years of human evolution, but it's happened also in a relatively recent time frame when we think about the American diet and what people are eating, but also the world diet of course.

它们发生在人类数百万年的演化历程中,在近现代,当我们考虑美国人的食谱,当然也包括全世界的食谱,同样在发生着这些变革

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It has high mountains. It has valleys formed by ancient ice that cut deep into the Earth millions of years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

I like Thai food just fine, but the prospect of having Thai food day after day after day-- for thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years no longer seems an attractive proposal.

我也喜欢泰国菜，但是想到日复一日-,吃上几十亿年,看似不再是美妙提议。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For example, scientists recently discovered a group of small organisms that appear to have lived for millions of years under the ice.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

And so one could say that there is a very unfortunate mismatch between our biology and our evolution and the modern food environment, because biology of course takes thousands and thousands, millions of years even to change, but the food environment has changed relatively recently.

可以说,在人类的生物进化和现在的,食品环境之间存在着非常不幸的脱节,生物学上的改变要花上,成千上万年的时间,但是食品环境却可以在短时间内迅速改变

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Natural gas is considered the cleanest of the fossil fuels, the fuels created by plant and animal remains over millions of years.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

The Hawaiian Islands were formed starting millions of years ago by hot liquid rock flowing from undersea volcanoes.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Fossils are plants or parts of animals that have been saved in rocks for millions of years.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

After millions of years, it was pushed up into the air to form land and mountains.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Instead,it belonged to a tyrannosaurid species that lived many millions of years before its T.Rex relative.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Also,in Darwin's time, the age of the Earth was estimated only in the millions of years too short a time some said for evolution to work.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

But many non-scientists are unsure about whether humans evolved over millions of years.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

Sharks have existed for hundreds of millions of years.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

For millions of years, the rivers turned and pushed.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

A more intriguing possibility is that our genetic makeup includes a signal encoded by aliens in our DNA that might have been left hundreds of millions of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Over the years, the program has provided millions of dollars to help African American students get money for college.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

That happened to millions of people two years ago at the height of the world food crisis.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

In the next ten years, millions of people made the move from Britain,Germany, and the Scandinavian countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

For years,millions of Chinese from inland provinces have flooded into eastern industrial centers.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

Through the years, millions of people continued to visit the Statue of Liberty.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Only a few years before, millions of buffalo lived on the Great Plains.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

In recent years, Somalia has seen a surge in ship hijackings that has netted pirates millions of dollars in ransom.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

hundreds of millions more consumers will be demanding energy in the years ahead.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

"We are able to demonstrate that the spread of malignant malaria happened only within the last five thousand years, even though the parasite affects hundreds of millions of people.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

While President Obama is promising an end to government bailouts, he says those which have occurred over the past two years have helped prevent millions of people from losing their jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24