stint

Five or six spring-times, welcomed joyously, lovingly watched from the first celandine to the budding of the rose; who shall dare to call it a stinted boon?

Cox sparkled for his 53 only to find Wood at long leg in Stokes' afternoon stint.

Then, after stints with the San Diego Padres and New York Mets, he broke for football.

The Taliban enforced the burka during their first stint in power in the 1990s.

After a difficult stint at university and a turbulent period in London, they returned to Scotland, performing across Edinburgh's folk circuit and living out of a van.