Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Triplecast doesn't sound sinister in the commercials. It actually sounds like a great deal. You get all the events you want--every second of every competition on three different stations. That's 1080 hours of commercial-free competition over the span of 15 days...
MOSCOW: I've been coming here for 23 years. That turns out to have been about a third of the U.S.S.R.'s life-span. In none of my previous 30-plus visits did I ever think I would outlive the Soviet state. Yet now that it is upon us, the demise of the Soviet Union makes both moral and historical sense...
...quite understandably, you didn't enjoy that listing of arguments, imagine it writ large all over this page for the dizzying span of about three weeks, which is the average half-life of a controversy with racial implications around here...
Gomes also said he believes the issue will linger. "I suspect, despite our short attention span, it will be discussed for quite some time," he said...
...unsolicited student pulp to be redeemed by recycling. But I read every word of this issue, and I am surprised: I am surprised that it is so well-written: I found not a single split infinitive. I am surprised that it is so long: it has a comprehensive attention-span for its subject. I am surprised at the variety of viewpoints, variety along a fairly limited scale, I agree, but variety in style, view-point, and indeed conclusion. And I am surprised that at least in its editorial preface, it sought to disassociate itself from charges of "anti-gay," "ignorance...