Duration

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"Duration" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Rapidity of rise may be inversely proportional to duration at altitude.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

The intensity, frequency, and duration of North Atlantic hurricanes, as well as the frequency of the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes, have all increased since the early 1980s.

Clearly, the Time Traveller proceeded, any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and Duration.

Olympic athletes live in the Olympic village for the duration of the games.

There are special hotels for dogs where you can have your dog rest for the duration of the trip.

Can you sit through the duration?

Over the course of seven years of planned mission duration, the spacecraft will make 24 orbits of our star.

Filby became pensive. “Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.”

The duration of the tennis match was five hours.

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The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.

She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.

To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.

Rationing will last at least for the duration.

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