Object

• spectrum: During the two days of this conference, expert speakers from all quarters will span the spectrum of system criticality.

• gamut: The evangelistic efforts of this group span the gamut from street preaching and door-to-door witnessing to evangelistic conversations and counseling with personal friends.. .

• millenium: They span five millennia, and are written on virtually every medium ever employed.

Converse of object

• shorten: The innovative solution arrived at by Halcrow was to reduce the shear forces at the supports by shortening the spans.

• lengthen: People are spending more of their lives living on their own -- through choice, through lengthening life spans and widowhood.

Preposition: over

• decade: A blues survivor, whose career spans over seven decades.

Adjective modifier

• trainshed: The longest platform faces under the trainshed spans are Nos. 8 and 9, which reach an impressive 1200 foot.

• short: We have a short attention span, I reckon.

• chronological: Its chronological range spans from Prehistoric times to the present day.

• five-year: The 1932 text was manufactured to last, where the 1987 reader is not likely to last beyond a five-year span.

• limited: The greater your interaction with a person in your limited time span, the more you will know about them.

Modifies a noun

• bridge: Whalley Lane Bridge ( No 45 ) - A single span masonry bridge over a public road.

Noun used with modifier

• attention: We have a short attention span, I reckon.

• wing: THE GANNET is Britain's largest seabird with a wing span of just under two meters.

• life: Life span You may also want to factor how long your new display device can last.

• concentration: Iâm always planning an exit, because I have the concentration span of a flea and I get bored after five years.

• repertoire: Clive's repertoire spans six centuries and includes the complete works of Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen.