Period of a thousand years

Usage examples of millennium.

The Culture-distorting group had not only its old mission of revenge against the West for a millennium of insult and persecution, but it was flaming with the unparalleled injury that was done to it by the renewal of Western exclusiveness in the European Revolution of 1933.

A late-afternoon storm was gathering over the malpais, the black and broken lava field that was all that remained of the fury of a volcanic eruption uncounted millennia ago.

Volcanoes dormant for uncountable millennia suddenly rumbled into full, frightful, fiery life all along the chains of eastern and southern mountains, darkening days with their wind-borne dust and ash, belching molten lava and superheated stones to fire hundreds of square miles of montane forests.

No floods, no fires, no storms, a major moonquake is a minor earthquake -- and significant meteor impacts happen once a millennium.

The original feminine meaning is correct, but the symbolism of the pentacle has been distorted over the millennia.

This has been characterized by a picture of voyages taking centuries or millennia to complete, entailing a strangely planetless existence for the travellers.

For all the relative primitivism of its technology, Grayson had maintained a large-scale space presence for more than half a millennium.

Ruin half a millennium ago, but had by now been mostly resorbed by the earth.

He had spent decades, and his people had lived for many millennia, in the seasonless and warm Underdark.

For kiln-fired pottery, which first appears in the fifth millennium BC in the Near East, combined TL-OSL can date a sherd to within a few hundred years if the conditions are right.

The Court of Stannary was convened there, as it had been for half a millennium, by reading certain decrees of King Edward I.

The Submaster had exactly the same face and figure that she had carried for millennia, but in the eyes and in the corners of her voice, she was changed.

All were printed on Terra, possibly -- some certainly -- a millennium ago, sequestered and preserved as a legacy by the terracentric Order.

Nomura suspected the Unattached agent had seen enough existence to have become more foreign to him than Felizwho was born two millenniums past either of them.

He suffered from a kind of claustrophobia brought on by countless millennia spent wandering the vast unceilinged skies, and felt uncomfortable enclosed like this.