long period
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Making Hal a president for a long period of time wasn’t all that interesting to me, but I did want a little bit of a window into it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"What has been fabulous about exam boards in England is that people have been allowed to sit their exams over a long period of time, one question at a time."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Across most forms of life, these signals have maintained the same basic functions for an extraordinarily long period of evolutionary history.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I don’t really think that there’s potential for this economy to absorb 6%, 7% rates for a long period of time,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
But a million years is a very long period of time.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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