Sentence examples for spanning millennia from inspiring English sources

The exhibition comprises 234 objects from 35 countries spanning millennia; some are drawn from the gallery's collection, others are loans, acquisitions and original commissions.

A supersize event, it shows off 150 artworks in a range of media, spanning millennia, from the collection of El Museo del Barrio in Manhattan.

Spanning millennia and bringing together works from all manner of civilisations, "it will be a museum of and for the world," says Rita Aoun-Abdo, who heads the culture section of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (TCA).

As part of an ongoing collaborative research effort with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, data collected from multiple sites (SCR-7, SCR-15, SCR-14) along the Santa Cruz Coast over the summers of 2016 and 2017 evidences diverse shoreline management practices spanning millennia.

For decades, therefore, archeologists used point types as convenient markers of gross time, typically intervals spanning millennia like "Early Archaic" or centuries like "Middle Woodland," and sometimes as markers of cultural affinity.

After studying coral and cephalopod fossils from rock layers spanning millennia, Schindewolf concluded that more recent groups of organisms could not have arisen from an accumulation of small changes in their ancestors.

Gender-based inequality remains the greatest global injustice and the struggle against it spans millennia and continents.

This problem becomes especially acute when the time gap spans millennia and a number of sister languages become extinct, events that obscure possible intermediate links in reconstruction.

Climate relicts, marginal populations that have become isolated via climate-driven range shifts, preserve ecological and evolutionary histories that can span millennia.

The bus ride from village to city appears "to span millennia"; "buildings go from mud to brick to concrete, then shoot up to an unimaginable four stories, even five".

Just as a quick shift in altitude can vault one from subtropical jungle to semi-arctic tundra, so, too, can a few hours on a bus from rural remoteness to urban centrality appear to span millennia.