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- adjective Of or pertaining to more than one
millennium .
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Examples
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A continuous multimillennial ring-width chronology in Yamal, northwestern Siberia.
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A continuous multimillennial ring-width chronology in Yamal, northwestern Siberia.
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A continuous multimillennial ring-width chronology in Yamal, northwestern Siberia.
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Mair goes on to say that the Manchus' proclamation of kuo-yü [= guoyu, Mandarin] as the official written language of the nation "marked the formal end of the multimillennial separation between book language (shu-mien-yü [= shumianyu]) and spoken language (k'ou-yü [= kouyu]) in China."
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When your instruments detect the radiations that suggest a civilization at some star, you will send your beams and perhaps your robots; but the span until anything can come of that, if anything does, is multimillennial.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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These multimillennial thinkers are confident that copper canisters of Scandinavian design, tucked into that bedrock, will isolate the waste in an underground cavern impervious to whatever the future brings: sinking permafrost, rising water, earthquakes, copper-eating microbes, or oblivious land developers in the year 25 000.
Vox Verax 2010
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These multimillennial thinkers are confident that copper canisters of Scandinavian design, tucked into that bedrock, will isolate the waste in an underground cavern impervious to whatever the future brings: sinking permafrost, rising water, earthquakes, copper-eating microbes, or oblivious land developers in the year 25 000.
Vox Verax 2010
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