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His life spanned nearly a century.

Tom's career spanned 1993 to 2013.

She engaged in a multidisciplinary study that spanned six departments at the university.

Yanni's productive life spanned four decades.

For the first time, doctors have succeeded in removing a gall bladder by remote surgery that electronically spanned the Atlantic Ocean.

Though fairly innocuous now, on this site once stood Sarepta, an ancient fortified city of the Phoenician empire, which spanned Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel.