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
In the silvery sheen with which the moon joyously and approvingly bathed them their eyes, wide, dark, luminous, clung for an aeon of time, reckoned in the history of love.
From Girl Alone by Austin, Anne
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