time span

noun

: time period

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

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Not coincidentally, the quartet has collectively trended more Democratic than anywhere else in the state in recent years, backing Obama by 10 points in 2012 and Biden by 19 points in 2020, even as the state as a whole moved to the right over that time span. —

Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024 Payne Had Multiple Drugs In System, Report Says Manufacturing's battery investments in the same time span were largest in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Tennessee due to investments by LG, Toyota, Hyundai and others. —

Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 However, economists warn that this metric whipsaws, and in this case, shifting the time span by just one month inverts the finding. —

Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Apr. 2024 His work encompasses every ocean and a time span of roughly five centuries. —

Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for time span