millennia

But that was a couple of millennia ago, and culture has moved on a little since then.

That's how it has been for a millennia or three, and that's likely how it will stay.

Particularly for a technology whose risk tail spans not years, decades, or even centuries, but millennia.

Do you really want lakes full of residual waste for the next few tens of millennia?

For millennia, human society has regulated itself by employing common sense, civility and good judgement.

Slavery and other forms of cheap labor were part of the human condition for millennia.

Shady salespeople have been using that technique to soften up potential customers for millennia.

It's just that other than normal conditions change that characteristics by many millions of fold, with consequences lasting from centuries to millennia.

Italians treated our people quite nicely during the war and besides we share a common heritage that permeates millennia.

Having millennia of Thorium available is essentially renewable, at least for this civilization.

It doesn't have to mean steady progress either; our civilization hasn't had that, yet in ten millennia or so we have progressed from basic agriculture to space travel.

For this planet, we're talking about two million millennia, or 200,000 times the time we've had.

This probably stems from the incorrect belief that fruits are somehow "natural" when they are in fact the result of millennia of artificial selection, selecting in particular for sugar content.

I fear that any resemblance between our own systems and those that existed several millennia ago would, like "Business Secrets of the Pharaohs", be purely coincidental.

I see where you're coming from, but poems, plays, and sculpture are "the fruits of the ancient world." A work like the Iliad only comes around once every few millennia, and no synopsis will frame its ideas so starkly.