Sentence examples for ancient dating from inspiring English sources

The history of wet-nursing is ancient (dating to perhaps 3000 bce) and widespread.

A diverse group of thousands of species of gooey, saclike invertebrates found throughout the world, the jellyfish are preposterously ancient, dating back 600 million to 700 million years or longer.

It also suggests that monkey hunting in apes is very ancient, dating back to the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.

These tiny crystals are so durable and some are so ancient, dating to just 150 million years or so after our world formed that geologists have long viewed the tiny bits of minerals embedded within them as a kind of time capsule, offering a peek at conditions on the early Earth.

The mycorrhizal symbiosis is ancient, dating to at least 400 million years ago.

The fossil record for starfish is ancient, dating back to the Ordovician around 450 million years ago, but it is rather poor, as starfish tend to disintegrate after death.

Censorship is an ancient practice dating back at least to ancient Greece as illustrated in the case of Socrates and remains active to this very day.

A kind of ancient date-rape drug.

Their calamities were of ancient date and they knew them to be irremediable".

The idea that disease was caused by entry into the body of imperceptible particles was of ancient date.

"You can't pick an ancient date and then try and remove hundreds of brands that companies have invested in over the years," Mr. Hemsley said.