Sentence examples for vast times from inspiring English sources

"Is anything more certain," he wrote, in "A Grief Observed," "than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch?" Between his late wife and himself, he felt only "the locked door, the iron curtain, the vacuum, absolute zero".

The vast time sweep of the Zhou dynasty encompassing some eight centuries is the single longest period of Chinese history.

Co-evolution works on vast time-scales and ayahuasca has only been known to the West for less than 150 years.

Moves back toward analog methods and tools seek, in a way, to undo many of the most heralded productivity advances of the digital era, which have morphed into vast time sucks.

He liked the painstakingly reconstructed dioramas of local battles and cattle ranches, and a vast time warp of a banquet hall — still in use — its walls covered with plaques about onetime citizens.

This should come as no surprise when one considers the power of natural selection and the vast time span and enormous scale of possibilities that it operates over.

Darwin recognized that the theory that life had evolved over a vast time also had implications for the fossil record as then known.

Although it's unlikely that amber can yield the DNA of dinosaurs, a la Jurassic Park, the tree resin can preserve the remains of insects and other organisms in great detail over vast time frames.

Without Becoming the Forest, these scenes, separated by vast time and space, might not seem so interconnected.

Even before taking on Inga 3, the World Bank experienced vast time and cost overruns in rehabilitating the Inga 1 and 2 dams, an infinitely simpler undertaking at the same location.

This acceleration and deceleration occurs on very vast time scales (<1 s)—the fly does not slowly work its way up to full speed, nor to a stop.