timespan

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Although the disparity in performance looks less dramatic when one zooms out to a 25-year timespan.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

In that too-short timespan, he built a multifaceted career as a poet, musician, actor and director.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025

With Unst's Viking heritage, we had always thought of the timespan from the longship to the spaceship.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2023

“It was supposed to move east of us, and within a five-minute timespan, it all changed and switched directions and came straight through Matador,” Moore said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023

"In seven tenth-years, n'ruhar," he began, "we will have—" Some breakfasters were quick to make the connection between the timespan and the previous night's First Sharing, no doubt aided by the little group's satisfied expressions.

From Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel by Wilson, Ann