aeon

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So here's another important caveat: If a week is a long time in politics these days, a fortnight is an absolute aeon.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2018

In this new era of oversharing, the 1994 of Four Weddings seems an aeon away.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2016

Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images An aeon has passed, it seems, since last played a championship match at Hove.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2012

The time frame matches Bottke’s model and corresponds to the Archaean aeon.

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2012

And were we not ourselves like pulsing suns Who, once an aeon met within the void, So fiery close, forget how far away Each orbit sweeps, and dream a little space Of fiery wedding.

From English Poems by Le Gallienne, Richard