The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
1 In St. Ignatius' life - time the arch-fiend seems to have had considerable power.
2 It would take me a life-time to earn that on a salary.
3 I declare, it seems as if I had known you a life-time .
4 Poor Harriet was paying for her folly with a life-time of wretchedness.
5 Why should not one census, like one baptism, suffice for a life-time ?
6 If he neglects it in his life - time the case is altered.
7 There had always been gossip of the kind in his life-time .
8 This problem will not be solved in a day, nor in a life-time .
9 So had the steward, who had spent most of a life-time in sailing-ships.
10 It was an evangelistic yearning that could not be repeated in another life-time .
11 I have spent a life-time in studying stammering, stuttering and kindred speech defects.
12 It is a momentous occasion, the most momentous of their life-time .
13 And who, probably, never was further than London in his life-time .
14 You'll see more pictures than you can paint in a life-time .
15 Mr. Coleridge wrote, in his life - time , his own epitaph, as follows:-
16 Those twelve months will be worth a life-time of level satisfaction.
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