period of time

“Things are very different now. Things evolved during the period of time that I was there where the police commissioners, for all intents and purposes, provided a rubber stamp,” he said in the deposition.

It's the longest period of time he’s spent with the media this year and he’s been more open than perhaps many of us had expected.

The Olympic Arts Festival turned us into an arts capital in a remarkably short period of time.

“Sometimes you lose, for a brief period of time, you lose control of that emotion. It’s not the first time that it’s happened.”

“We have this obligation to the child who has been let down in a number of ways, over a long period of time,” she said last month.