Sentence examples for millennium from inspiring English sources
The word "millennium" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to a period of 1000 years. For example: It is expected that the new millennium will be a time of great progress and prosperity.
noun
A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
A 2010 study by the Institute of Education – which tracked children born between 2000 and 2002 – shows that 97% of "millennium mothers" want their young children to attend university.
In December, Gordon Brown, the former UK prime minister, launched a campaign against child labour (pdf) in an effort to reach the millennium development goal of universal primary education by 2015, which Brown's education for all initiative supports.
Two of our biggest landmark offerings for the millennium are Simon Schama's 16-part History Of Britain, and a vast festival called Millennium Music Live 2000.
According to Neil Squires, former head of Profession for Health at DFID, the theme for the 2014 report, 'Reducing vulnerabilities and Building Resilience', is one that will resonate and inform thinking on the post millennium development goals agenda.
Thanks to energy exports, Kazakhstan is central Asia's most prosperous state, with annual economic growth averaging about 10% for much of the first decade of the new millennium.
The files were procured on chat channels and through Napster and BitTorrent; I haven't purchased an album with my own money since the turn of the millennium.
The Dome was undermined by the unforgivably crass and soulless Millennium Experience exhibition of 2000; it was many years before it redeemed itself as today's O2 music venue.
And now the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has fought for digital civil liberties since 1990, has launched a campaign to eradicate digital rights management (DRM) called Apollo 1201, referring to the section of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that prevents users tampering with the digital locks on the things they own, such as books, music and movies.
Over 1,600 Joneses are expected to make up the audience at the 'Jones Jones Jones' show in the Wales Millennium Centre, which will smash the current record, set in 2004 by 583 Norbergs in Sweden.
The second of the United Nation's eight Millennium Development Goals is to achieve universal primary education by 2015, however in South Asia alone the UN estimate that there are 16 million children out of school, globally this is close to 70 million.
The report is being released before the conclusion of discussions in September to finalise what targets for economic and social outcomes by 2030 will succeed the Millennium Development Goals.
