Definitions for period of time
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1. time period, period of time, periodnoun

   an amount of time

   "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

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1. period of time

   An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth. Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) and Sanskrit yuga.

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1. period of time

   A period of time refers to a specific interval, duration or segment of time which could be characterized by a specific event, condition, task, or phenomenon. It can be as short as a second or as long as years, centuries, or even eras in historical or geological frameworks. This term is often used in various fields such as history, science, business, and everyday life.

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1. period of timeadjective

   Amount of time

   To live in a period of time that has seen such amazing change is a gift to the soul

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 2, 2023  

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of period of time in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of period of time in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of period of time in a Sentence

1. Jeb Bush:

   It's a slight different view in a relatively short period of time, we're gonna carpet bomb Mosul? A city of 800,000 people? That's just not realistic, that's just not grounded in reality.

2. William Dahut:

   We’re not trying to blame anybody for their cancer diagnosis, but when you see something occurring in a short period of time, it’s more likely something external to the patient that’s driving that, and it’s hard not to at least think – when you have something like colorectal cancer – that something diet-related is not impossible.

3. Hound Labs ':

   We aren't measuring impairment, we're measuring THC in breath where The Hound device lasts a very short period of time, providing objective data about THC in breath to law enforcement and employers to use in conjunction with other information they have gathered.

4. President Obama:

   So in a 10 year period of time, and it really was -- 9/11 probably was the impetus behind some of this. But I think what happened was, over time, this security state complex really joined with this military industrial complex that Eisenhower talked about, and the danger now that we face is we have-- that security state complex are all of these intelligence community agencies and activities that we have, right, that we've heard so much about … who actually is in charge of them, and then what authorities or what things that they're able to do-- You've lived this, via them monitoring your phone calls, right?

5. President Barack Obama on Friday:

   I don't want us to be in a situation in which, for a certain period of time, those authorities go away, and suddenly we're dark, and heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=period of time
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_of_Time
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