aeon
Example Sentences
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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
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
How strange, though, to compare this reasonable piece of entertainment with the sensational impact of that first Shrek film, way back in 2001, an aeon in movie-trend terms.
From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2010
While I sit here among these mountains—I have been filing away at them for this last aeon or so, just to attract your hotels, you know—will you be so kind―?
From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
