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
Irenaeus founds an argument upon this directed against the heretics who supposed that the Christus and Jesus were not identical, but that Jesus was the son of Mary, upon whom the aeon Christus afterwards descended.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by William Sanday
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