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Meanings of long span in English

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Usage of long span in English
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They paused halfway across the long span and Natalie hugged her elbows.
Carrion comfort
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Sinatra's body of work dramatized the long span of his life.
The new yorker
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Alexander and the superintendent picked their way out slowly over the long span.
Alexander's Bridge
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Through the whole of his long span, Custer had done very much as he pleased.
American empire: blood and iron
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In this long span of mortal years, events of vast and enduring moment shook the world.
Studies in Literature
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Mammals were not expanding, with dinosaur retreating, during the long span of Cretacous life).
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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I like writing for the long span.
Reuters
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Over the decades- long span of his career, Ken established numerous waterfall ice first ascents in the Canadian Rockies.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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She thought back over the last few days: somehow the incidents seemed spread over a long span of time.
Dreamsnake
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Its very difficult to "act" loyal to Dumbledore for such a long span of time, almost 17 years.
The Guardian
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Melancholy had marked him for her own: he himself always felt that he had not a long span before him.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
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This appointee survived in that post the extremely long span of three months, only to be killed by Capone's gang.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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Presently she found herself standing beside the river looking up to the iron bridge that crossed it with one long span.
The Heavenly Twins
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One was knitting and the other just stared out over the long span of weedy lawn in front of the main house.
Quantico
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The fact is, 'tis to witness her sign some law-work about taking shares wi' another farmer for a long span o' years.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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He had been married to my mother for thirty years, and during that long span of temptation, he had remained faithful to her.
Fear nothing
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