Sentence examples for great spans from inspiring English sources

His alert and poised camera captures, with seeming hypersensitivity, deep and hidden harmonies running through great spans of time.

These innovations provide a great freedom of design and a means of covering great spans without a massive substructure.

The reputation for slow tempi that stuck with Klemperer in the last decades has never seemed more irrelevant; however measured, the great spans of the opening movements of the Fifth and Eighth Symphonies never seem a moment too long.

These expectations and assumptions are ill suited to the LMP, during which the poorly sampled archaeological record exhibits substantial technological variability across great spans of time and space, the sparse chronometric record is of limited accuracy and precision, and significant variability in the ancient DNA and hominin fossil records defy simple taxonomic attributions (23, 24).

It is these holistic integrating energy patterns that have taken a few billion years to evolve and transform the biosphere as a living interdependent whole that seeks a harmoniously patterned energy balance over great spans of time.

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

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.

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.

"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".