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Answer for the clue "Long period of time ", 4 letters:
aeon

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Usage examples of aeon.

Immortality treasures what we have been, what we are, and what we shall become in the huge aeons ahead of us.

The wheel moved a fingerbreadth, then a fingerbreadth more, with a shriek of metal forced into motion after aeons of inactivity.

Among my own people we call them Lijik Ganda, the Red Reivers An aeon ago they swept down upon us, and the slaughter drove us from our homeland and into sin and degradation.

His love for her had survived the ice age intact, like the beasts from vanished aeons that were always thawing out in the pages of comic books and going on rampages through the streets of Metropolis and Gotham and Empire City.

There was, for the Mercatoria, little point in having a network of super-fast travel connections scattered throughout the galaxy if your ships were too fat to fit, and so the proportions of war craft - the ultimate levers of power for the Mercatoria, just as they had been for all earlier imperia, semimperia and others who had thought to enforce their peace or impose their will on the galactic community over the aeons - were derived from the width of the channels they would have to negotiate.

Soon they began to climb into the black sky, and the gaseous metabolic wastes of the metazoa living inside them leached out, forming, over aeons, a rudimentary cloud ceiling.

With cascade-sequence re-recording and corrections, the Neptunian superconductive nerve tissue can retain a given personality for aeons.

I, Hugo Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune, Magus to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Sprout, Twelfth Dan Grand Master of the deadly art of Dimac, Logos of the Aeon, Lord of the Dance, King of the Jungle, snake-charmer, unicyclist, three-way cross-channel swimmer, Mr Lover Lover, Wild Colonial Boy, and one Hell of a Holy Guru, being of the soundest mind ever lodged within the human form and signed in my own hand in the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gothe, and our most Regal Majesty Victoria.

I know that it almost conquered the Universe aeons ago, ere the god Valkyr sealed it within the Iron Tower.

And then - as the aeons pass and the continents, oceans, mountain ranges and terrain all drift - why are not so many more migratory creatures found to be wildly adrift in their navigation?

Mind, spanning aeons, which hold the world in balance, removing dead wood, and vitalizing and renewing harmony between all forms?

Just as springtime possesses a vibrancy of fresh life unsurpassed by any other season, just so - say the seers - is there an ebb and flow of the Life Force, but spread out over vast aeons of time.

There the sediment accumulates over aeons, cleverly preventing the toxic over-mineralization of the sea, while at the same time providing the material for the rocks of future continents and mountains as the planetary surface gets recycled.

Over the span of aeons, this store of karma becomes a great weight upon the soul, keeping it bound to the wheel of birth and death.

Although I suspect that, after twenty aeons, few stones have been left unturned.