Sentence examples for little span from inspiring English sources

[ISIS fighters] are concentrating now in small towns along a little span of the Euphrates River that crisscrosses the Iraq and Syria border in the middle of nowhere.

If the Tharauds are unlikely to enjoy a renaissance, their Dingley will survive as more than just a curiosity - as a novel of some seriousness and verve - for some at least of the "little, little span" that Kipling is borne in mind.

He was prickly and private (though this would have been a challenge); he regarded any form of biographical venture as the "Higher Cannibalism"; even left us a famous admonitory "Appeal" - "And for the little, little span / The dead are borne in mind / Seek not to question other than / The books I left behind".

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a lot in a very little span of time and is accompanied in government institutions, organizations and NPOs.

It's a little span of time that you can focus on somebody else.

AW: That's a real storm front for me because I'm a real history buff, and it's just amazing to me how we've got this short little span of attention for huge things that have happened in the past, and it's just not possible now for anyone to remember these lessons from history.

Having only the Brotherhood of the Angle in common, we stood on a little bridge spanning the Piddle and celebrated that fraternity for more than an hour.

This same short span produced very little lift at low speed, which resulted in extremely long takeoff runs and frighteningly high landing speeds.

But for the little time span we had of that [today], that was pretty atrocious.

"I think I went through four gloves during that little time span, and it was coming down pretty heavy on me.

To the left is a series of little bridges spanning the Harlem River, including the Madison Avenue Bridge, which carries marathoners back into Manhattan.