timespan

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Although the disparity in performance looks less dramatic when one zooms out to a 25-year timespan.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

"Everybody was scrambling around to understand what could be done with a very short timespan on our hands."

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

In that too-short timespan, he built a multifaceted career as a poet, musician, actor and director.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025

In a 2021 report on the Joplin derailment, it attributed 592 U.S. derailments over a decade-long timespan to “track geometry,” which includes the distance between the rails and their horizontal and vertical alignment.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023

"In seven tenth-years, n'ruhar," he began, "we will have—" Some breakfasters were quick to make the connection between the timespan and the previous night's First Sharing, no doubt aided by the little group's satisfied expressions.

From Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel by Wilson, Ann