1.   Around the country, people are celebrating the comet with a joy quite unlike the trepidation that similar sightings spurred in past millenniums.

2.   But these are trivial compared with the transformations of the past millennium and the possibilities of the coming one.

3.   In the past two millenniums, political control has shifted from pagan Romans to Eastern Christians to Muslim dynasties and various European crusaders.

4.   It is only in the past millennium that this number has come into its own, making Western mathematics and science possible.

5.   Only weeks from now, all such items will carry the mark of a millennium past.

6.   The thing that was happening all along as we whipped ourselves into grander and grander retrospectives of the decade, the century, the millennium past.

7.   This provided an opening for his continued presence on Earth, and rabbis of the past millenniums have worked him into ritual.

8.   The capitals of Europe, the continent that dominated the past millennium, put on dazzling spectacles.

9.   The discovery by crews from Hanover-based Nauticos could change theories about ancient trade routes and provide clues about climate change in the past two millenniums.

10.   The Festival of the Dhow Countries brings together film, music and art from countries that have influenced this archipelago for the past millennium.