Usage of "million years"

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Unit of time.

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A unit of one million years, used in geology and astronomy.

Usage of million years in English

However the last great dip was more than 20 million years ago. 
 BBC 

The answer is simple: 300 million years ago, there was no Atlantic. 
 BBC 

Some 55 million years ago, the conditions would have been very different. 
 The Guardian 

It's the result of volcanic activity only three hundred million years ago. 
 Water, stone, heart 

However, scientists predicted it would only happen in the next million years. 
 The South African 

Several degrees vs. 100 and several centuries vs. a few million years. 
 Wired 

Mosquitoes first appeared 170 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs. 
 Reuters 

Background: Mus spretus diverged from Mus musculus over one million years ago. 
 Pubmed 

Then there were the first land plants, about 450 million years ago. 
 BBC 

After seven and a half million years of computation, it replied 'forty-two'. 
 What does a martian look like? 

About two million years ago, our hominin ancestors began to change again. 
 BBC 

One analysis suggests that the split began around 5 million years ago. 
 BBC 

Therefore it took 800 million years for life to appear on Earth. 
 The Science of Battlestar Galactica 

This is an increase of about 50 million years on earlier calculations. 
 BBC 

They flourished, scientists here think, between two and five million years ago. 
 Midnight at the well of souls 

I never in a million years thought this would happen to me. 
 Amazing grace 

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Meanings of million years in English