Century and Span

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Century noun - A period of 100 years.

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Span and century are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Span" instead a noun "Century".

Span noun - The distance or interval between two points.

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Century and span are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Century" instead a noun "Span".

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Which, coupled with an Ocampan generation being about 3-4 years, means that with those numbers the entire Ocampan race should become extinct in about the life span of an average 24th century human.

Source: Writers Cannot Do Math
First Generation Prolong was only discovered around a century ago, and on rich planets like Manticore there isn't anyone physically over 40, and the life span will go for 300 years.

Source: We Are as Mayflies
In Kim Harrison's The Hollows it is implied that witches grow up like humans and age little for about a century after they reach their twenties, resulting in a natural life span of about 160.

Source: Immortality Begins at 20

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