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* 1981 , May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers , said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol

It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}

(colloquial, hyperbole) An unusually long time.

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A particular time or period of vague extent.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days', […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after ' days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days , a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days , Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}

Life.