The truth about the fire death came out, the truth about everything came back, in flashbacks spanning years.
Thus, the 1st millennium is defined as spanning years 1 1000 and the 2nd the years 1001 2000.
The minutiae of trade negotiations spanning years may seem eye-glazingly opaque, but their substance promises meaningful help for the world's poor.
There were so many offences spanning years, so many other victims - including preschoolers - that the prosecution did not know where to start.
Taking the latter definition, Reckless is a pertinent surname – so much so, the Daily Telegraph dedicated an article listing examples of his reckless behaviour spanning years.
Families are stacking up such arrears, spanning years in some cases, that they are having their benefits slashed, which is driving them further into poverty.
Rather, they look at trends spanning years or decades, such as more youths seeking higher education instead of going directly to work.
Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, called Avenatti's actions "an old-fashioned shakedown". On the same day, prosecutors in Los Angeles filed charges accusing him of wire and bank fraud, a case that officials said included misdeeds spanning years.
The material is part of an attempt to learn the depth of what investigators now believe was a sprawling foreign effort spanning years to interfere with the 2016 United States presidential election.
There has yet to be a large study spanning years, comparable to the Women's Health Initiative, of the safety and effectiveness of hormone therapy for aging men who have signs and symptoms of testosterone deficiency.
Certainly in the cases of the school and the town square, many people have given up their time and energy on a voluntary basis, over a period spanning years, in order to try to achieve something that they have every reason to believe will be positive and enhancing to the lives of very many people.
