This principle is very useful for word learning in conversational settings, as words tend not to be explained explicitly in conversation, but may be referred to frequently throughout the span of a conversation.
Even the span of their conversation is cramped; they only have 80-or-so minutes (played out in the film in real time) before Jesse must return to his wife and child in the US.
Still, Mr. Rosen said he remained concerned that Ms. Fowler had not tried, in the span of a conversation that lasted several minutes, to alert the former president to who she was.
We began to talk, and in a very short span of time, our conversation ranged over from Kierkegaard and Socrates to linguistics and Buddhism.
Within the span of a single conversation you will be told that America is the best country on earth and be asked why you – or indeed anyone – would come to their particular town.
In the span of a short conversation, he uses the phrase, "No fuckin clue what's going on," and also expresses confusion.
The topics of conversation span from niche to broad".
He's a born policy wonk whose night table reading is The Economist and who in a span of five minutes of casual conversation can mention Nietzsche, Harvey Milk and minutiae of Constitutional Law.
In the piece, Playboy reporter Lawrence Grobel claims he got over eights hours of conversation time with Gibson, spanning multiple days.
(Odd bits of conversation).
