A short span of time in this director's life, but the impact it made was tremendous. (mutantreviewers.wordpress.com)
That's such a long span of time for such a simple task we have to assume that he also had to teach himself how to read and operate a computer too. (howtogeek.com)
Again like global temperatures, if we want to detect any long term trend we need to look at what is happening over spans of time of about a decade. (theness.com)