Sentence examples for immense time span from inspiring English sources
Over the course of this immense time span, our species evolved from diminutive, small-brained bipeds eating fruit, digging for tubers, and catching the occasional lizard to what we are now: animals, as Friedrich Nietzsche put it, who can make promises.
But first, a warning: it is difficult for anyone to conceive of such an immense time span as 4.5 billion years.
Structurally, it consists of nine books that, because of the immense time span, often do not share common characters or settings; the third-person narrative voice, which has been likened to that of an anonymous chronicler, does not pass judgment on the events or provide commentary that would help tie events together.
United States population has tripled in the last 100 years and world population has quadrupled in that same time span, putting immense pressure on all our natural resources and acting as a fundamental driver of global warming.
The New Yorker series is a very readable redaction of the original — and without sacrificing much essential information, easier on the attention span than the book, which requires an immense time commitment — but for better or worse, it's not as full-throated as the original.
The time span is significant.
Here, somehow, the time span feels short.
The time span is 150 years.
The time span of the offers varies by country.
The time span suggested a possible identity for the corpses.
