Sentence examples for the stretch of time from inspiring English sources

The rocks are so well known that they are called the Cincinnatian Series, representing the stretch of time from 451 million to 443 million years ago.

It takes a lot [out] of you during the stretch of time from when you're named captain to the playing of the Ryder Cup.

The Department of Justice has identified the period between students' arrival on campus in late August and Thanksgiving break as the stretch of time when a student is more likely to be assaulted than at any other point in her college career.

In Kramer's other examples, too, the Constitution's meaning was settled, sometimes more enduringly than others, not overnight by judicial decree but over the stretch of time, through the struggle of ballots cast and blood shed, of minds changed and hearts won.

The new year serves as a divider: we define the stretch of time before it as similar to the present, and deadlines occurring within it as more urgent; the other side of new year, by contrast, seems like a far-off land.

The stretch of time betweenMicrosoft Windows 1.0 and Windows 95 was a decade.

It sounded a little nostalgic for the stretches of time that he lived and worked in New York, in the 1960s and '70s.

Sometimes I came close to sleep, but better were the stretches of time that I was conscious but not needed, awake but not being woken, touching parts of the bedding but not being touched.

When Mr. Serotta does manage to find himself in the flow of writing, the stretches of time in which he is focused are what Dr. Czerwinski calls "key cognitive flow moments". Dr. Czerwinski's research group is working to identify the signals that such a moment has ended.

But then he began to worry about the stretches of time she and her friends spent engrossed in tablets and smartphones, silently tapping away at the screen.

Alas, they'll have to search even harder than before: A new experiment tests the stretching of time predicted by Einstein's special theory of relativity and finds it spot on the money to 1 part in 10 million.