The skeletons in the study spanned the century before and after the conquest, with 13 estimated to be from the 11th century itself.

The result far exceeds those initial, more modest ambitions, spanning a century and almost 1,000 pages.

Her life has spanned a century.

It spans a century of high society and self-conscious slumming.

Music, history, politics and philosophy become intertwined in a multi-layered story that spans a century.