period of time
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Making Hal a president for a long period of time wasn’t all that interesting to me, but I did want a little bit of a window into it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It was important to us to throttle growth for a period of time to make sure that we can support this from an operational standpoint,” Wurster told analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Both of them had gone travelling for a period of time in their early 20s, a classic gap-year style experience, and had enjoyed taking holidays, particularly to sunny destinations.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Annualized revenue is found by taking revenue from a month or another short period of time and using it to determine what a company could make in a full year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
His argument for the thesis was that if the universe did not have a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before any event, which he considered absurd.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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