Слово "span". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.

‘And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span.

The wire door was a couple of hand-spans from his face.

A woman who was hatched from an egg, and whose span of life might cover a thousand years; whose people had strange customs and ideas; a woman whose hopes, whose pleasures, whose standards of virtue and of right and wrong might vary as greatly from mine as did those of the green Martians.

Such was the characteristic of Helen’s discourse on that, to me, memorable evening; her spirit seemed hastening to live within a very brief span as much as many live during a protracted existence.

It was a steel bridge of a single span and there was a sentry box at each end.

In an instant the nearest male gave a shrill, whistling cry, and flapped its twenty-foot span of leathery wings as it soared up into the air.

It was a steel bridge of a single span and there was a sentry box at each end.

A short bridge over a canal was blown up but we climbed across on what was left of the span.

# Tenacity spanning

Ah, troika, troika, swift as a bird, who was it first invented you? Only among a hardy race of folk can you have come to birth — only in a land which, though poor and rough, lies spread over half the world, and spans versts the counting whereof would leave one with aching eyes.

for spanning the 33 kilometer gap.

The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.

Dr Reilly was just as nice as ever, and his house was nice too, with a bathroom and everything spick and span.

There used to be cities that spanned hundreds of miles.

The shadow of the obelisk spanned the terrace.

His new bridge’s deck spanned over 480 meters—