Sentence examples for scales of thousands from inspiring English sources

"The big fires that are occurring in the American Southwest are extraordinary in terms of their severity, on time scales of thousands of years.

In reality, she says, "oceanic changes happen on time scales of thousands of years...

The region between 650 and 700 K (dashed box) is particularly interesting because, here, recrystallization can occur on the time scales of thousands of years (see text).

These observations show that complex organic compounds can be synthesized in the low-density circumstellar environment over time scales of thousands of years.

Several of the presentations focus on ecological engineering that involves scales of thousands of hectares or even larger catchments to solve ecological and environmental problems.

Nonetheless, a 35% uncertainty at the pixel level is on par with errors inherent to field inventory plots [30, 31], and when averaged over much larger jurisdictional scales of thousands to millions of hectares, the overall uncertainty drops to extremely low values [3, 17].

In the works of Béla Bartók, passages built on folk music scales, rather than on the major and minor scales of 18th- and 19th-century keys or tonalities, are used alongside atonal passages.

Murdoch has been focused on building the scale of 21st Century Fox's TV and film business, after freeing it from the drag of the publishing assets which were spun off into a separate listed company last year.

"There is significant risk and uncertainty as to the valuation of 21st Century Fox's non-voting stock and 21st Century Fox's ability to govern and manage a combination of the size and scale of 21st Century Fox and Time Warner," the company said.

When the risks are perceived as credible and risk-reduction strategies are understood, tragic losses from future lahars on the scale of 20th-century lahar disasters can be avoided or at least minimized.

Generally the rule seems to be: The farther a style fell out of fashion during the '80s and '90s, the bigger its bounce back up the scale of 21st-century respectability.