Sentence examples for Eons later from inspiring English sources

Eons later, a certain hairy, two-legged species has come to think of itself as the crowning achievement of this process.

Eons later, between 175 million and 45 million years ago, two separate collisions of continental plates (moving at their fastest at the speed of a growing fingernail) slowly pushed up the ancient ocean floors, forming the mountain spines running north-south through Canada and the United States.

Eons later, in a process called secondary endosymbiosis, predatory protozoa gulped down the green algae.

Eons later, a smaller impact would have blasted Allan Hills A81001 off Vesta without erasing the imprinted field.

Eons later, as workers mined the coal surrounding the forest, a landscape of fossils emerged, embedded in the mine's ceiling.

Now, eons later (in Internet time), Friendster lives on as an online gaming company aimed at Southeast Asian youth.

An eon later, in 2011, Sam Sifton wrote in The Times that the salad was "no longer really in style," but that "it still tastes terrific".

Glaciers raked the land with it an eon later.

Humor heads off most trouble ("Now, Millie, stop being so bossy"); if trouble does arise, we -- lovely pronoun, "we" -- we fix it next day, not an eon later.

In later eons would many a child of Folo ask, "Mother, from whence comes the saying 'When the cudgel hits the cake'?" And few could answer with any certainty.

And yet, a full 20 months later — untold eons, in Internet time — dozens of YouTube users continue to quietly upload their long-belated versions to the less-trafficked corners of site, often appending a "this is late" by means of apology.