Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "time-span".
It was a long, free-falling conversation, with people wandering in and out, over a time-span of an hour or so -- journalists, pols, spectators -- and the focus of it, as I recall, was a question that I was trying to get some bets on: How many of the primary Watergate figures would actually serve time in prison?
It was the third day of his interrogation by Eldon - his 'debriefing' as they persisted in labelling it, with manifest irony - and they had no intention of lessening the pace or increasing the time-span.
It was a long, free-falling conversation, with people wandering in and out, over a time-span of an hour or so -- journalists, pols, spectators -- and the focus of it, as I recall, was a question that I was trying to get some bets on: How many of the primary Watergate figures would actually serve time in prison?