aeon
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So here's another important caveat: If a week is a long time in politics these days, a fortnight is an absolute aeon.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2018
In this new era of oversharing, the 1994 of Four Weddings seems an aeon away.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
The time frame matches Bottke’s model and corresponds to the Archaean aeon.
From Nature ● Apr. 25, 2012
How strange, though, to compare this reasonable piece of entertainment with the sensational impact of that first Shrek film, way back in 2001, an aeon in movie-trend terms.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010
And thus it happens, that everything in this world, possibly without a solitary exception has its own separate aeon: how many entities, so many aeons.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
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