Sentence examples for stretch of time and from inspiring English sources

What would really be interesting is to take a long stretch of time and watch each of his films, one after the other.

Both agreed that dance predated this pottery art by a great stretch of time, and that it probably had long had a social function beyond mere entertainment.

In a short stretch of time, and for reasons that were almost completely coincidental, the country changed in ways that made it much more amenable to the transient, plastic modernism of Ikea.

Amid the weirdness, the touring, collaborations and associated madness, it would be easy to wonder where exactly Vernon might have found the time and space to write a second Bon Iver record – For Emma was, after all, an album that felt gestated, pored over, complete, the product of an unpressured stretch of time and a need to say something.

It is not a musical, programme-like account of the development of a life within a limited stretch of time and space, but an un-programme-like dip right down to the layers of the emotional life that are still half-chaotic and wholly elementary.

Acquire a wide enough assortment of securities over a long enough stretch of time and you will do just fine.

Nothing happens for long stretches of time, and when it does, the carnage puts Mortal Kombat to shame.

The method gave him the means to fill long stretches of time, and from then on his major works were of full-evening length.

Manipulating long stretches of time and variegated ensembles isn't easy, particularly when - as in Mr. Morris's music - improvisation is an essential part of the music.

The wealth of nations is built over long stretches of time, and what matters over this horizon are the real factors of production, including labor, physical capital, technology, resources, human capital, institutions, and geography.

Experts in Catholicism said the rosary, a prayer tradition as opposed to an expression of fundamental church doctrine, had evolved across the centuries -- although it often went long stretches of time, and many papacies, without any changes at all.