Sentence examples for Human lifetimes from inspiring English sources

(The record in the rocks is little help, since a geological eyeblink represents many human lifetimes).

They estimate that it would grow to rival the last great catastrophe of the past, when the dinosaurs and much else died out 65m years ago, in as little as three human lifetimes.

- Georg Kell, executive director of the UN Global Compact From inequality to climate change, the hot topics at Davos make it clear that commerce has created a legacy of problems, the solutions to which are either deferred for generations or impossible within any reasonable number of human lifetimes.

However, on the scale of individual human lifetimes, it may have been so gradual as to be nearly imperceptible.

As the latter is predominantly employed to date archaeological architecture and artefacts requires that it has the ability to resolve changes over timescales relevant to human lifetimes.

Lots of interesting stats and creative use of the technology: "Hundreds of millions of Google Earth downloads and activations," and the equivalent of "1,000 human lifetimes have been spent looking at Google Earth".

Now brace yourself: In 30 years we expect that a PlayStation they come out with a new PlayStation every six to eight years, so this would be a PlayStation 7 will be able to compute about 10,000 human lifetimes simultaneously in real time, or about a human lifetime in an hour.

Although somatic cell sequence comparisons are impractical because mutation rates are low relative to human lifetimes, epigenetic errors also potentially record ancestry because methylation exhibits somatic inheritance [ 3].

"To a species, a human lifetime is a little flicker".

Opportunities for sin are what fill a human lifetime.

Is this something that could happen in a human lifetime?