Sentence examples for immense span of time from inspiring English sources

In his introduction, Simpson says that "…experimental biology in general and genetics in particular have the grave defect that they cannot reproduce the vast and complex horizontal extent of the natural environment and, particularly, the immense span of time in which population changes really occur.

Cliff's narrative covers a huge span of time.

On the contrary, they remained scattered groups, sometimes coexisting with descendants of earlier populations of the Pleistocene Epoch (roughly 1,800,000 to 10,000 years ago), who in their turn had also learned to make economic use of their environment over an immense span of cultural time.

The high winter sky arcing Arctic-wards toward Canada, the steely lake waters, the black silhouettes of ore boats gliding distantly by, the immense span of the Mackinac Bridge (one young woman plunges her car off it in a snowstorm): these seem to offer -- and at the same time withhold -- the reality that eludes them.

Conducting from memory, as he did in the Wagner, Ono realised the immense span of Strauss's score with authority, its delicate webs of sound as intense as the sweeping arcs.

STAMFORD "A Span of Time," paintings by Henriette Simon Picker.

"We're only here for a span of time, and no matter how you go, that was your time span.

Similar illusions about the spans of time occur in dreams.

I like to think in large spans of time.

We spend an immense amount of time laughing, joking, poking fun or exchanging wry smiles.

Past time on Earth, as inferred from the rock record, is divided into four immense periods of time called eons.