Hours
Hours noun - An indefinite period of time.
Spans
Both words in one sentence
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Real Time: More or less; a story that spans 2 hours takes about that much time to watch.
Source: Film / Exam - Food For The Gods by Fireaxe spans three discs, and is just a few minutes under 4 hours long.
Source: The Epic -
Most common is the strange tendency to treat all the landmarks and major cities of a country that spans an entire continent as if they are within a couple hours' drive of each other.
Source: We All Live in America
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Spans and Hours. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hours/spans
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Spans or Hours. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hours/spans.
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