Sentence examples for great span from inspiring English sources

In the great span of time during which the Roman Republic and Empire existed, there were many phases of legalistic development.

When Baba can no longer visit (menace is implied, but the precise reasons are mercifully unstated), each resolves to fly his kite alone, as a signal sent across the great span of distance that separates them.

If Winston Churchill's maxim about architecture — we shape our buildings, and thereafter our buildings shape us — is true, the great span and the forever futuristic-looking needle gave each of these young West Coast cities a common civic narrative.

Here to the south, especially on a blustery day, the Hudson still feels like a wild place, even though New York City is only a few miles away and the great span of the Tappan Zee Bridge dominates the horizon.

It was to be, he said, a kind of "mystical synthesis of America and its structural identity", in which engineering and the architecture of the Brooklyn Bridge itself, whose great span he could glimpse outside his apartment window, would be used as metaphors for the Machine Age.

"Brookland" itself is a kind of bridge, not just in its great span, from 1772 to 1823, and in its lattice of solid little parts — what the Winships eat for dinner (sweet-potato stew), how many dresses Prue has (one, brown) — but in its balance of opposing forces, above all, the forces within Prue's personality.

"And like a miniaturist on canvas who has to work to distil a world into a few square inches, the writer who can suggest a great span in a story that has to be kept in check is a true servant of the craft".

However, feeling suspense upon repeated viewings after a great span of time is an altogether different phenomenon.