period
Example Sentences
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Andrew says he will spend much of the festive period potty-training his younger son.
From BBC
It was able to fly for a longer period before it spun out of control, breaking apart near its intended splashdown location in the Indian Ocean.
She was on the medication for 16 weeks before she began to taper, cutting down over a period of six weeks.
From BBC
This “lock-in effect” has helped freeze the housing market for three straight years, suppressing the number of U.S. homes for sale and keeping inventory well below historic levels for most of that period.
The departments were authorized to spend more than $1 billion on temporary workers during that time period, though they used only a fraction of the money, according to the audit.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
