The phrase "a single span" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to one continuous stretch or extent, often in contexts related to architecture, bridges, or time periods.
Example: "The bridge was designed with a single span to minimize the number of supports needed."
Alternatives: "one span" or "a solitary span".
Johannes later built a bridge at Reichenau, a single span 240 feet (73 m) long.
Symphony No. 13 (1933), by contrast, was a revelation, its three movements conjoined into a single span of nocturnal contemplation and disturbance.
They are coolly but compellingly dispatched, with Yundi generally passing up opportunities to score easy dramatic points in favour of taking the long view, shaping the pieces into a single span.
The "Long Way Down" Gondola Kitzbühel, Austria or Whistler, Canada Advances in technology have made it possible to build gondolas higher above the ground, because fewer support towers are needed, so large valleys can be crossed in a single span.
The third of its five movements has been largely responsible for that popularity, for the whole structure pivots about this tour de force of musical memory, which uses the scherzo from Mahler's Resurrection Symphony as the framework for a collage of quotations that compresses the musical history of the 20th-century into a single span.
I never knew.John Bradfield was a truly legendary figure who came up with the idea of a single span bridge capable of carrying cars, trains and trams, and who insisted that Sydney's fledgling underground railway system be expanded and integrated with the bridge.
The monotonic and cyclic behavior of a single span-single story MRF with various beam span-to-depth ratios equipped with the proposed shear fuse is investigated through finite element modeling, verified using experimental data.
But, in "Brookland," Prue — a woman in her twenties, self-educated — decides, almost a century earlier, to build a single-span bridge over the river.
Representatives of East Sussex County Council, who had provoked an outcry with its plan to replace the original wooden structure with a single-span utility version, pulled out the publicity stops with white tape across the bridge and a speech by Mrs Pat Drake, chairman of the council's highways and transportation committee.
The calculations were validated using experimental data from a single-span greenhouse without plants.
Numerical simulation and laboratory tests were performed on a single-span and a two-span beam.
