Sentence examples for era spans from inspiring English sources

It is the youngest names in the New Times report that are the most troubling, because they seem to confirm what should have been clear: that the scourge of the "steroid era" spans several generations, right up to the current one.

His era spanned the Gilded Age (he was a friend of Mark Twain).

Paleogene Period, also spelled Palaeogene Period, oldest of the three stratigraphic divisions of the Cenozoic Era spanning the interval between 66 million and 23 million years ago.

The father of the narrator in Ginzburg's biography of a family and their era – spanning the rise of fascism and the Nazi era – is famous for his outbreaks of anger.

That pattern — a city proposal, followed by months of tense negotiations — continued into the current era, spanning issues as varied as advertising standards, safety partitions, credit-card readers and the television screens now placed in city cabs.

I certainly am, to know how these celebrated figures interact, and how their experience during the tumultuous era spanning the two World Wars is set to song and dance.

Add to that an era spanning plot (the future and the past in one game, whatever next?) and a villain straight from Bond and you'll know what to expect.

While the writers and artists of the era spanned the political spectrum -- Bryant was a liberal Democrat; Cole was a Whig; Morse ran for mayor in 1836 as an ardent nativist -- they shared a patriotic urge to eradicate American feelings of inferiority toward the Old World.

Converse's golden era spanned the 1940s and the 1960s, when it became the most popular sneaker for any athletic activity (and possibly spawned a generation of flat-footed athletes).

That era spanned the gap between the end of the Senna/Prost years and the dawning of a new age with a depth of talent and opposition far richer than Schumacher had to face.

In all, eight ships were located in an area of 210 km2, including five of the Roman era spanning a period of time from 100 B.C. to 400 A.D., documenting the existence of a major trading route in the central Mediterranean Sea between ancient Carthage, Rome, Sicily, and Sardinia.