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Meanings of life-time in English

Portuguese
duração de uma vida
Catalan
vida
Spanish
vida

The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

        duração de uma vida
        Usage of life-time in English
        1
        In St. Ignatius' life-time the arch-fiend seems to have had considerable power.
        The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
        2
        It would take me a life-time to earn that on a salary.
        The Foolish Virgin
        3
        I declare, it seems as if I had known you a life-time.
        The American Missionary — Volume 45, No. 02, February, 1891
        4
        Poor Harriet was paying for her folly with a life-time of wretchedness.
        The Automobile Girls at Washington; Or, Checkmating the Plots of...
        5
        Why should not one census, like one baptism, suffice for a life-time?
        Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and i...
        6
        If he neglects it in his life-time the case is altered.
        The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of ...
        7
        There had always been gossip of the kind in his life-time.
        The Hampstead Mystery
        8
        This problem will not be solved in a day, nor in a life-time.
        The Elements of General Method, Based on the Principles of Herba...
        9
        So had the steward, who had spent most of a life-time in sailing-ships.
        The Mutiny of the Elsinore
        10
        It was an evangelistic yearning that could not be repeated in another life-time.
        T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
        11
        I have spent a life-time in studying stammering, stuttering and kindred speech defects.
        Stammering, Its Cause and Cure
        12
        It is a momentous occasion, the most momentous of their life-time.
        Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
        13
        And who, probably, never was further than London in his life-time.
        The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
        14
        You'll see more pictures than you can paint in a life-time.
        The House of the Misty Star / A Romance of Youth and Hope and Lo...
        15
        Mr. Coleridge wrote, in his life-time, his own epitaph, as follows:-
        Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
        16
        Those twelve months will be worth a life-time of level satisfaction.
        The Emancipated
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        Translations for life-time
        Catalan
        vida
        Spanish
        vida
        Life-time through the time
        Life-time across language varieties
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