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It was a matter of him turning it on. I always had a lot of hope for him ever since we signed him. Because he had what you're looking for ... big, long arm span ... tall ... quick. It was a matter of him deciding it's time.

Oh man, I'm on top of the world. I dreamed big as a kid, but I never dreamed that in a span of one week, I'd be competing in the Olympics and at the NFL combine.

It's tough, I anticipate he will be out for the season, ... I've never been in the situation where you lose the No. 1 and 2 quarterbacks in a span of seven plays.

It will take approximately four months to get the existing bridge down. But we are still looking at opening the new south span by mid-2006.

They destroy the class for that other span of kids. We can give him a chance.

Once on-set hits, their life span is extremely short; one day to seven days,

That section of road is within the city limits, but the roadway we are talking about is (Florida) Department of Transportation property. The DOT has already posted signs that prohibit bicycles and pedestrians from being on the span of bridge that's the Fourth Street exit off of I-275. And after taking a look at the area, I can see that people fishing there could be a real hazard, so they (DOT officials) probably need to post no fishing signs there so that it's a very clear message.

Excuse me if I cry, OK? Here's the deal with all three of those kids . . . what we've done in this four-year span is actually the best four-year span we've ever had. I coach at Utah because of the love I have for a lot of things about being here. It's not about one thing. It's not about winning at the highest level. I love being here, and they provided that kind of ride for me.

I haven't been doing business for years, and all of Ukraine knows this, ... The campaign against me is based on the notion that 10 years ago I was very powerful. In a span of five years, I created the most powerful company in post-Soviet space. The memory of that exists, of course.

In a matter of three series, we had a poor planned kickoff, and they get the ball at midfield. They go deep for a big play the next play. They score a touchdown. They kickoff to us, on the return we get a holding penalty. We get the ball out on a reverse and we fumble. In a matter of a five-minute span we gave up 17 points, really 21 points.

I only had three goals up until tonight. I had a few chances, though. That's the way hockey is. Sometimes the puck goes in for you, and then you'll have a five- or six-game span where nothing goes in.

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

In the first half we did a good job of handling it, but in a short span in the second half we just kept turning it over.

Intel has a slew of products coming out within a span of the next two or three quarters that could help it close the technology gap with AMD.

In this day and age, you're going to have multiple backs. The days of the Eddie Georges are over. You're not going to find a guy that has a career span of nine to 10 years.

In 15 years, we've raised $225 million, sequenced the myeloma genome, and opened 45 trials of 23 drugs - six approved by the FDA - which have doubled the life span of multiple myeloma patients. I've taken both Velcade and Revlimid, which we helped develop.

Hopeful signs span the globe and there should be no doubt that the years ahead will be great ones for the cause of freedom,

He's won eight tournaments in such a short span of time. He's an unbelievable player. If he sticks with it and keeps working hard and stays in shape, barring injury, he knows how to win on TV. I don't think we've seen anybody win on TV like him in a long time.

I dreamed big as a kid, but I never thought in a million years that in a span of a week, I'd be able to compete in the Olympics and be at the NFL combine.

I don't like reading off the screen. I have a very short attention span and I write short chapters for that reason.

For perhaps the first time since the beginning of the hip-hop culture, we've been able to provide an empirical definition of what this market truly is. We finally have the hard data showing the difference in core values between young people who affiliate with hip-hop and those who don't, and the eye-opening differences span a wide range of areas from shopping behavior and purchasing decisions, to attitudes towards cars, media usage and fashion.

The kids' attention span is limited anyway. They're happy to see a little, move on, come back to the ship, hang out with the friends they've made and eat American food for dinner.

The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.

The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.

The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.

The long-term effects are just terrifying to me. This could be the first generation of all time that could have a shorter life span than their parents.

The local residents are indeed fortunate to witness a total eclipse twice within the span of 18 months.

We believe the bridge has a 20-year life span left. That's assuming no earthquakes and no bad storms,

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Good men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past