Word: spans
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...because life is short, and you can't defer death." That feeling suffuses Never Let Me Go. People have manufactured a class of clones to extend their own lives, and in so doing made mortality even more vivid and imminent. The clones' struggle to squeeze an entire life span into a couple of decades makes the book at once exhausting and moving. "The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading," Kathy muses at 31, a year after most clones have already been harvested. The struggle to enjoy life as the time bomb of mortality ticks...
...hasn’t lost since—a span of 15 games over which the Crimson has amassed a 13-0-2 mark and added the Ivy League and ECAC titles to its mantle...
...best basketball to the Big Dance, the choice is not so clear, as the 12-2 team could have posted a 5-2 mark over its last seven league games and the 10-4 squad could have put together a 6-1 or 7-0 mark over the same span, and vice versa...
...trade deadline just passed, and never before have so many superstars been dealt in such a short span...
Princeton led Cornell 37-28 at halftime in the two teams’ first meeting, but the Big Red put together a 20-0 run over an eight minute span of the second half to charge ahead...