Her hardest task, she said, was to get their attention spans to grow.
And that guff about it being our short attention spans to blame?
(The murmured, accented English of the Zimbabwean subjects, accompanied by subtitles, stretched boozy attention spans to the limit and beyond).
Villagers along the line slept outside next to the wood and steel spans to keep the FCE running.
But by not driving the rhythm too hard, he allowed the long structural (Brucknerian?) spans to emerge.
Maybe it's time to add attention spans to the list of things Norwegians have that Americans don't (along with fjords, abundant happiness, gender equality and paid paternity leave).
The French government hope this will help to combat "planned obsolescence" – the practice of designing products with restricted life spans to ensure consumers will buy more.
I'm also counting on the scene makers' limited attention spans to send them away in search of somewhere hotter and with nicer neighbors.
Or that Saddam loyalists are sneaking back into the government, waiting for the Americans, with their short attention spans, to pull out.
The bridge, until recently named the Triborough, also has spans to the Bronx and Manhattan, and all three touch down on Randalls Island.
Examining medical records would have told him what ailed individual presidents, but would not have enabled him to compare their life spans to the average.
