Time something lasts

Usage examples of duration.

The duration of the siege has done nothing to abate the groundswell of support for Abies in and around this tiny Northwestern hamlet.

It was a compound of actinium, a substance far more radioactive than radium, but of lesser duration.

I went down and saw that their fines were paid, and pledged to the stationer adjudicator that they would be confined to quarters for the duration of our stay.

With the two simple elements of darkness and fire, we create a sensation of pain, which may be aggravated to an infinite degree by the idea of endless duration.

I have this regrettable circumstance to thank for those which befell me at the end of the duration, when the argosy eventually came to dock in Sarribad.

Mining quit, too, and the Aureole Mine was purposely buried for the duration of the war.

He also loosened the rules governing authorization for investigations and their duration.

No matter, the Poet said, a White Hun who falls asleep for the duration of a Benedicite or who starts flapping his arms is already a dead Hun.

The signals coming in from the biochip showed no clear pattern in terms of intensity or duration.

In this case the part may be cogredient with another duration which is part of the given duration, though it is not cogredient with the given duration itself.

For example, the tunnel of a tube railway is an event at rest in a certain time-system, that is to say, it is cogredient with a certain duration.

The stream of events which form the continuous series of situations of the electron is entirely self-determined, both as regards having the intrinsic character of being the series of situations of that electron and as regards the time-systems with which its various members are cogredient, and the flux of their positions in their corresponding durations.

To sum up, a duration and a percipient event are essentially involved in the general character of each observation of nature, and the percipient event is cogredient with the duration.

There is not only a significance of the discerned events embracing the whole present duration, but there is a significance of a cogredient event involving its extension through a whole time-system backwards and forwards.

Camilla what belonged to pleasantry in this business was of short duration, When the cotillon was over, she saw nothing of Edgar.