| 单词 | in length of time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin length of time a. Extent from beginning to end, e.g. of a period of time, a series or enumeration, a word, a speech or composition. †in length of time: in course of time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] lengtha1240 date?1316 durationc1384 hautesse1399 quantity?a1425 periodc1475 tracta1513 allowance1526 continuance1530 wideness1535 continue1556 protense1590 countenance1592 stay1595 standing1600 dimension1605 longanimity1607 longinquity1607 insisture1609 existence1615 unprivationa1628 continuity1646 protension1654 measure1658 course1665 contention1666 propagation1741 protensity1886 the world > time > [adverb] > in course of time or as time goes on on (also upon) hand (also hands)c1200 in (also by) (the) process of time1357 by (also in) process?1523 in success of time1546 in continuancea1552 in length of time1697 a1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 261 Þe imeane blisse is seouenfald lengðe of lif. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 444 To.. leden þerinne our lif þe lengþe of our daies. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 425 Þe lenþe of Noe lyf. c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 882 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 506 God hym lent lynt & space hyme to repent. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxxii. 519 The lenght of the siege. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. vi. sig. Hh.ij/1 The Equinoctiall is, when the day and night is both of on length. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 104 In length of Time produce the lab'ring Yoke. View more context for this quotation 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 31/1 The Stone has in length of time closed up the Mouth of the Valley. 1860 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 34 A stay of any length there would not suit me at all. 1902 N.E.D. at Length Mod. The chapters of the book are very unequal in length. < as lemmas |
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