How to Use time span in a Sentence

time span

noun
  • The time span, though, may hold a clue.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And then in like a three-hour time span, there's no crop.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • In a three-and-a-half-hour time span the kiddos cook two meals.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Your number can be called within a very broad time span.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In the same time span, Texas has signed 12 five-star recruits.
    — David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The locks changed throughout the two-decade time span of Season 1.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • Beach volleyball takes place over the same time span—just at a sandier venue—and the schedule is stacked.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 24 July 2024
  • That is an 8% increase from the 270 that occurred last year in the same time span.
    — Spencer Pauley | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 July 2024
  • You might have been kept in solitary confinement all that time; there might be a quite large time span between the two.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
  • One man was cited or arrested 20 times during a three-year time span.
    — Helen Rummel, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2024
  • Men show higher rates of loneliness across the same 30-year time span than women.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In that same time span, the Texans had 34 rushing touchdowns as a team.
    — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The Senate’s website doesn’t list any such roll call votes made during that time span, either.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Only Alabama, with 49, has more over that time span.
    — Connor Riley, AJC.com, 22 June 2026
  • That cohort makes up less than 5% of all NBA hires during that time span.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 21 June 2024
  • Such a time span would have saved the cockpit voice data from Friday’s accident.
    — Jay Blackman, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Last year, the company had already revealed a plan to save 40 million pounds in the same time span.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 14 May 2025
  • And some $200 million has been collected during that time span.
    — NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This is the first time the grounding line in Antarctica has been mapped over such a long time span, Rignot said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Twenty sitting members of Congress were tried and convicted over the same time span.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • While the number of online stores has increased, the time span from order to delivery can be several months.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The time span from inviting the opening acts to take part in the song to finished recording and making social media clip took less than two weeks.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In that same time span, every part of the state of Louisiana has experienced at least a dozen.
    — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The Wolverines have two national runner-up finishes in that time span.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In the same time span, 36 cases were found in Georgia and 10 in Nevada.
    — Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Advertisement Hitchcock was the head coach of the Stars for parts of eight seasons over a time span of more than two decades.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • Meanwhile, Zillow data shows rents are up about 35% in that same time span, squeezing renters' budgets.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Three cover the same time span, starting around the Depression and running into the sixties.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2025
  • While the tilt did already exist before, the study analyzed why the tilt increased further in the 17-year time span.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Cowboys’ Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith did it four times during that time span.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023

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