time span

noun

: time period
The study took place over a time span of 20 years.

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As of early Friday evening, the YouTube video had been viewed more than half a million times within a five-hour time span. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025 You might have been kept in solitary confinement all that time; there might be a quite large time span between the two. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025 Advertisement To date, the film has played in about 1% of all U.S. theaters and represents just 0.1% to 0.2% of all total show times for every movie in this time span, said Daniel Loria, senior vice president of box office business intelligence at the Boxoffice Co. Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024 A lot can happen in such a time span with cancer, including a lot of really, really bad stuff. Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for time span 

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“Time span.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20span. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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