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

"Everybody was scrambling around to understand what could be done with a very short timespan on our hands."

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

"In the short timespan, sometimes this kind of behavior, if it's directly related to food or some survival value, it may very well fade away fairly quickly. We'll see whether that happens or not."

From Salon • May 14, 2024

By contrast, 9% of the 221 flu patients died in that timespan.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 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