It's the only thing we know lasts thousands of years.
But maybe chess, having lasted thousands of years already, is at root a more conservative game than we tend to think.
That system served civilization so well that it lasted thousands of years.
This is one fad that has lasted thousands of years.
It is estimated that a platinum image, properly made, can last thousands of years.
"Those images should last thousands of years," he said from his office in Grinnell, Iowa.
What has lasted thousands of years will be there tomorrow or next month or next year.
"A single disproof to a theory that's lasted thousands of years?"
It's only four and a half hours in a campaign that lasts thousands of hours.
If the design, materials and construction are good, the building should last for hundreds or even thousands of years.