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"Span" in a Sentence (29 examples)
The bridge has a span of 100 meters.
Thanks to these discoveries, man's life span has become twice as long as before.
Seventy or eighty years is the normal span of a man's life.
According to a recent study, the average life span of the Japanese is still increasing.
What is the average life span in Japan?
The average life span of the Japanese has lengthened to a great extent.
There were figures there from those of an age best called girls and boys to those who looked to be old enough to be about to live out their life span.
The present perfect expresses the long span from past to present.
My son's short attention span is causing him problems at school.
I wonder what the normal life span of a cockroach is and if they ever die of old age.
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He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.
"Why in ten thousand years scarce will the rain and storms lessen a mountain top by a span in thickness?"
Yet not to Earth's contracted Span, Thy Goodneſs let me bound; […]
Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy.
The unsilent present is a time of evaporating attention spans,
For example, in OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word, each span of text can have a style that defines key characteristics about the text: • What font it uses • Whether it's normal, bolded, italicized, […]
The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges.
We use the term span (also called depth, or dependence depth) to refer to the number of parallel steps assuming an unbounded number of processors.
The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.
The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
Completed in 1823, Gaunless Bridge was designed by George Stephenson to span the River Gaunless in West Auckland, forming part of a line serving Witton Park Colliery.
The parking lot spans three acres.
The novel spans three centuries.
to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder
Mine hand alſo hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath ſpanned the heauens: when I call vnto them, they ſtand vp together.
We spanned the dogs high up a corrie to the south of the ridge […]
But when Adam delued, and Eue ſpan, VVho was then a Gentleman?
So they went in to where Gudruda sat spinning in the hall, singing as she span.
Five spectators remained in critical condition on Monday, a day after they were injured when a giant pick-up truck span out of control during a stunt show in a Dutch town, killing three people, local officials said.
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