Sentence examples for tracts of time from inspiring English sources

Organisations regularly tell me that they spend vast tracts of time studying employee remuneration, yet I never hear of anyone acting on this knowledge.

On his rather startling write-off of video art, conceptual art and performance art one can't help feeling that this this a rather de haut-en-bas attitude, and to write off entire categories of artistic practice is, while bracing, also a little foolish, especially as Penny does not give the impression of having spent large tracts of time studying such work.

Every writer has experienced those tracts of time, those beloved fugue states, so much better than a chemical high.

Summer was once an endless tract of time.

The philosopher and psychologist William James observed in 1890 that "a tract of time empty of experiences seems long in passing, but in retrospect short".

Later, I'd picked up a book about Ötzi, and found myself drawn in by the heroic pathos of this ur-Alpinist, whose preserved body and effects individuated him with eerie clarity through the vast tract of time since he died.

Few practitioners of the form seem prepared to learn from any writer later than Scott, though Virginia Woolf in Orlando (1928) and Between the Acts (1941)—made bold attempts to squeeze vast tracts of historical time into a small space and thus make them as fictionally manageable as the events of a single day.

IT was "Satan's favorite TV show," according to a religious tract of the time.

To improve area-based SES estimates, we used a year-dependent census tract SES composite index 18 linked to SEER cases by the census tracts of residence at time of diagnosis.

Our data suggest that SeqA structures retain specific DNA tracts for varying amounts of time.

"Historically, the Catholic Church purchased large tracts of lands at times like the Depression.