Sentence examples for vast period from inspiring English sources

Though covering a vast period of personal and public turmoil, "Graham Greene: A Life in Letters" traces, quite astonishingly, no refining of sensibility and intelligence.

The voice of reason comes from Nate's sole platonic female friend, the shrewdest in Waldman's post-feminist cast of characters: "We hope that at the end of it we wind up happier than our grandparents, who didn't spend this vast period of their lives, these prime years, so thoroughly alone.

He seemed to forget we were there for vast periods of time.

Dispersal and vicariance are the common and over-arching explanations that account for the patterns of life on earth that take place over vast periods of time.

Dr. Dansgaard's work had significant implications in measuring carbon dioxide concentrations over vast periods and understanding the dynamics of global warming.

But for vast periods of Cameron's time in opposition, the science community felt spurned – he was the last of the three party leaders to address the Royal Society on the importance of science in the runup to the 2010 election.

It has been suggested that a major source of petroleum found in deep-sea sediments originates from the deposition of wax-rich dead plankton over vast periods of time.

Boris Pasternak wrote of Tsvetaeva's poetic form that it had "sprung living from experience - personal and neither narrow-chested nor short of breath from line to line but rich and compact and enveloping sequences of stanza after stanza in its vast periods of unbroken rhythm".

How typical of a civil servant, a politician might say, to think in such vast periods of time when all that matters is the next election.

"For vast periods of the second half we were on top and we limited them to three shots on target all day.

The Modern Synthesis an integration of genetics, paleontology, ecology, and other branches of biology explained life predominantly as the result of natural selection operating on small differences between individuals over vast periods of time.