The oldest fossil records of life are stromatolites, produced by an archaic form of bacteria from about 3.4 billion years ago.

They won't - and shouldn't - get a response in the very tangible and archaic form that some want.

A few still have the older strong past as an archaic form.

Apart from a few albeit remarkable exceptions, this archaic form has not been much employed in later times.

She ends her sentences with the phrase -de gozaru, similar to the phrase -desu but in an archaic form used by samurais in the past.

The brain size of archaic humans expanded significantly from 900 cubic centimeters in erectus to 1300 cubic centimeters.

By arriving at original thoughts, which are often highly creative and rely on metaphor and analogy modern humans differ from archaic humans.

Archaic humans had a brain size averaging 1200 to 1400 cubic centimeters, which overlaps with the range of modern humans.

Are they, he wonders, embarrassed by archaic language?

The archaic language contained in the legislation would lead to countless legal arguments.

He believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of decorative or purposefully archaic language.

It aimed to remove archaic language and impenetrable terminology from tax law and to replace it with modern language and terminology.

Nevertheless, small pockets of people preserved an archaic language.

We did not ask these people to come here with their archaic laws.

In archaic law, a computo was a writ, thus called from its effect, which was to compel a bailiff, chamberlain, or receiver to yield his accounts.

The media still has to face obstacles, archaic laws and arbitrary reactions.

The finance ministry estimates that cuts to the cost of archaic rules and feefixing will save €6 billion a year.

Regular travellers routinely amass points worth tens of thousands of pounds, but airlines' and points schemes' archaic rules mean they are often rendered worthless when the traveller dies.

Some tenancy agreements contain archaic rules, which few comply with.

She said the archaic rules made marriage look like a 'business transaction between fathers'.

These archaic rules were dropped in the early 1960s.

The entitlement to dream was denied us by the crass incompetence of an archaic system.

More than 600,000 transactions failed to go through in the latest collapse of the bank's archaic system and could lead to regulatory scrutiny.

Rather than blaming customers for assuming that a bank uses modern technology, it should update its archaic system.

It will still take another year to overhaul this archaic system.

Supermarket chiefs yesterday hit out at the archaic system and demanded a level playing field.

That archaic term, which has fallen out of use, isn't helpful.

The archaic term miller was commonly used in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pila were sometimes referred to as javelins, but the archaic term for the javelin was verutum.

What's more, unlike other archaic terms, somehow its charge hasn't been neutralised.

However, it was also expressed in rather archaic terms.

Cathedrals should appoint singers to perform music to the highest possible standard, rather than to maintain archaic traditions.

Yet rather than becoming extinct, the community's archaic traditions and language are enjoying an unexpected recovery.

He said that he wanted politicians to change, to call each other by their names in debates and to drop the archaic traditions.

It was directly out of those archaic traditions that drama, too - tragedy, comedy and satyr-play - arose.

Are your writers having a competition to see who can use the most archaic word?

Not every silent film can boast intertitles featuring four repetitions of the archaic word 'mayhap'.

Pageant comes from the archaic word for the wagon stage, pagyn.

An initial automated pass updated approximately 1,000 archaic words, phrases and grammatical constructs.

They are believed to be either neologisms or intentional revival of archaic words.