Sentence examples for a span of some from inspiring English sources

They have occurred over a span of some 8 or 10 years to our knowledge.

British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies colonies, protectorates, and other territories that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government.

Bach wrote the three sonatas and three partitas, which were probably never performed in public during his lifetime, over a span of some 17 years in the early 18th century.

It starts and finishes in the Middle East, but in between there is a span of some four millenniums (give or take the odd century) and a journey that covers much of the globe.

In addition to these warnings, several ports and harbors were closed in the states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Jalisco, and Colima, a span of some 680 mile.

Approximately 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic over a span of some 400 years and made to enter into slavery, and an estimated one in three of those who made the Middle Passage died en route from abuse and disease, the speakers noted.

By doing nothing, you'll wind up ahead of most of your peers, some of whom will change offensive coordinators practically every season, some of whom will switch from a 4-3 to a 3-4 and then maybe back to a 4-3 in a span of five years, some of whom will forget to turn off the dial on sports-talk radio.

A satisfactory critical summing-up of Busch's long career may take a while; over a span of 35 years, he produced some 22 books of fiction, including five previous volumes of stories, and four works of nonfiction.

Sanders swatted Austin's first two attempts in a span of three minutes, foreshadowing some final statistics: Sanders totaled seven blocks and Austin shot 0 for 5. Banging bodies in the post, Chandler and Sanders got more familiar with each other on Friday night, but unknown to them was their shared passion for art.

And during a span of 10 days in August, some 10,000 people were displaced by fighting in northeastern Nigeria.

That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe.