Example sentences for: spans

How can you use “spans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Framed by a dystopic post-World War II South Africa--where the economy has moved from rural to urban, Afrikaner nationalists have risen to power, and apartheid is testing its wings--the story airs these larger happenings through the muggy lives of its young protagonist (the book spans years 10 through 13) and his family: his father, a nonpracticing attorney whom he despises; his mother, who is too close to him and to whom he is too close; and a younger brother, who he suspects may, at heart, be normal.

  • A Roman bridge (ponte) still spans the Lima, though the town is perhaps better known for its ancient bi-monthly market.

  • Each gene was placed into one of four 'validation' categories: Perfect match to SPTRreal (annotated peptide of identical length with 100% sequence identity), Single AA substitutions (annotated peptide of identical length with ≥ 99% sequence identity), Significant mismatch (annotated peptide and SPTRreal entry do not align over their entire length, but do contain aligned spans of 40 residues or 20% peptide length, with at least 97% sequence identity), or Poor match (poor or no BLAST hits).

  • 9 Mb that spans the euchromatic portions of the chromosome arms is reported in [ 47].

  • From this point on, anybody who undertakes any sort of American literary history will have to come to terms with Powell's achievement--15 more-or-less mature novels; close to a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, book reviews, and occasional pieces; a magnificent diary that spans 35 years; and well over a thousand letters.


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