10 Metaphors for duration

For if it was, the duration of the new youth should be another span of life, whereas in actuality it is only a fraction of that time.

But from the beginning of accurate statistics we know that the duration of life in any nation is a fair index of its progress in civilization, Quetelet gives statistics, more or less reliable, from every nation of Northern Europe, showing a gain of ten to twenty-five per cent, during the last century.

A committee was appointed to report the form of government the best calculated to secure the liberties of the people; the duration of the existing parliament was [Footnote 1: Carte's Letters, ii. 242.

It lasts also; many a human being has carried the marks of it for life; and surely duration of effect is proof of power.

The difference between the length of the night and the day floods was an hour; the duration of the former being six hours, whilst that of the latter was seven; whilst the difference in the rise was 7 inches, the greatest general height, which was during the night tides, being 20 inches.

The longest duration I have yet observed was a little over nine and one-half minutes.

The prisoners' camp was about three and a half versts distant, and the duration of the meeting was one hour and five minutes; the droshky hire for the journey was 100 roubles per droshky.

Again, according to 7:17, the flood continued on the earth forty days; while according to 7:24 its duration was a hundred and fifty days.

"Duration and space are two things in some respects the most like, and in some respects the most unlike to one another.

The duration of the Course in Arts or Science, Pass and Honours, is 3 years.

10 Metaphors for  duration