aeon

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In the supercentenarian league – 110 and above – the three-year gap between her and Knauss might as well be an aeon.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2019

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

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

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2012

Shabby,—let me here pause to say that in Virginia shabbiness is the grand universal law, and neatness the spasmodic exception, attained in rare spots, an aeon beyond their Old Dominion age.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various