Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After crossing a highway-spanning overpass and inhaling the requisite volume of carbon monoxide gas," (after all it is New York City), the runners begin the 1.5 mile loop of the famous "back hills." These consist of a seemingly endless span of winding slopes that eventually return the runner to the bridge, around a sharp downhill and to the final 400-meter stretch...
Harvard has talent. There are good offensive chances, but they always find a way to fizzle. The defense stuffs the opposition, and then lets in multiple goals in a short time span...
...read?" is usually a second, tacit one: "And why, while we're on the subject, should I read it?" Coming up with answers has long been the practice and business of literary criticism. But such queries have, in recent years, taken on a snappish edge, not only from attention-span-challenged students of the MTV generation but from a number of grownups whose putative profession is the teaching of literature...
...been a very, very long time since Harvard has defeated Cornell--try eight years, an unprecedented span of dominance of one Ivy League football team over another...
Because of the large time span between the break-ins, police were unsure of the number of thieves involved...