Sentence examples for figures spanning from inspiring English sources

As I travelled across India exploring the contemporary afterlives of 50 important historical figures spanning 2,500 years for Incarnations, my new book and 50-part BBC radio series, I heard dozens of young Indians extoll the bravery of Shivaji, the 17th-century Maratha warrior who defied the Mughals and serves today as a symbol of Hindu pride and resistance to Muslim rule.

According to the figures spanning five years from 2007 to 2011, more than 300,000 cases of cancer recorded were linked to smoking.

Nancy Drew players now include moms who have introduced their daughters to the girl detective, making her one of history's longest-running iconic figures spanning generations.

These broad figures spanned the two sides' competing proposals as they went into talks; the final treaty totals will be in-between.

Important figures spanned both centuries, and the genres, literary groups, and methods of criticism they established in the 19th century continued into the 20th.

The lives of these figures spanned two centuries, from the Enlightenment through the Second World War, but Sebald uses his allusive, memoiristic style to explore connected themes — in particular, his subjects' common failure to balance their personal lives with the "awful tenacity" of their work.

Leaving aside that this figure spans 75 years, meaning it probably averages out to less than one or two tenths of a percent of Social Security's projected benefit payments over that time, the main change has been a purported closing of a "loophole" that allowed some couples to claim more than their share of benefits.

The arrangements cover completely the field in the TEM pictures at low resolution (Figure 3a), spanning a surface of several square microns.

The staples were recognized in thin sections as electron dense plaques within Golgi cisternae (arrows, Figure 5A C) spanning a gap of 27 ± 3 nm between opposing membrane surfaces, similar to their morphology within the ER.

There are few active figures who span more of the history of the modern Republican Party, or who have the government resumes to match that of Donald Henry Rumsfeld.

Engineers figure span will be lifted only 5 or 6 times a day.