As a teenager, I had immense periods of misery.
Past time on Earth, as inferred from the rock record, is divided into four immense periods of time called eons.
The pair spend immense periods of time away from each other, but absence in this case scarcely seems to make the heart grow fonder.
Hutton was, for a time, a farmer — and in that occupation, observing the process of erosion and the laying down of deposits of various materials, he realized that the landscape he saw around him could be explained by the same forces operating over immense periods of time, as long as you posited that there were other forces uplifting ancient sediments to form today's geological features.
On their first stop ashore at St Jago island in January 1832, Darwin saw geological formations which he explained using Lyell's uniformitarian concept that forces still in operation made land slowly rise or fall over immense periods of time, and thought that he could write his own book on geology.
FitzRoy had given him the first volume of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology which set out uniformitarian concepts of land slowly rising or falling over immense periods, and Darwin saw things Lyell's way, theorising and thinking of writing a book on geology.
The impact on small, Welsh speaking communities was immense and this period ignited a tradition of mixed language songs known as Macaronic.
Based on a Jean Shepherd short story, the movie benefits from an immense heart, rich period detail and quirky comic characters.
Childhood is a period of immense change, and to have an uncontextualised digital footprint is disturbing.
There is a cold, steely professionalism that is driving departments through an unsettling period of immense change.
