The pair were impassive in the dock as Tuesday's verdicts came in, the culmination of three days' deliberations by the jury and of a trial spanning four weeks and two days at Southwark crown court.
Despite the project's length — 15 hours over seven nights, spanning two weeks beginning next Sunday — PBS is expecting its largest audience yet, surpassing the 38.9 million viewers who watched any part of the first broadcast of "The Civil War".
Candidate lists were published only 10 days before voting, the process is staggered over three stages spanning six weeks because of the limited number of judges available to monitor the vote and there were hundreds of candidates in each district and a multitude of new parties.
The salacious trial spanned three weeks and served as a daily embarrassment for the Knicks and the league.
And the race, which spans three weeks, 21 stages and about 3,500 kilometers (more than 2,100 miles), will grow only more difficult.
Sometimes, a week of vacation just isn't enough, and travelers who can spare the time for a longer getaway have plenty of choices: Travel companies are increasingly offering itineraries that span three weeks or more.
The trial in Riverhead of Christopher Slavin could span three weeks and is scheduled to be followed by a separate prosecution against Ryan D. Wagner, who was also charged in the Sept. 17 beating of Magdaleno Escamilla and Israel Perez with a shovel, a crowbar and a knife, officials said.
The settlement discussions spanned two weeks or so last month.
The American Ballet Theater presentation will span two weeks in February 2005 with three programs, to include "Giselle" and "Swan Lake," both part of the company's repertory during the 1940's.
The acts that led to charges against Mr. Lay span seven weeks in the fall of 2001, the papers say, while the charges against Mr. Causey and Mr. Skilling involve a period of nearly two years.
Mrs. Merkel also suggested that hammering out details for a new global climate accord would probably not be completed during the Copenhagen summit meeting, which spans two weeks in mid-December.
