Both Uses of
duration
in
Gone with the Wind
- When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- So she gracefully evaded, for the time being, a definite answer as to the duration of her visit and slipped easily into the life of the red-brick house at the quiet end of Peachtree Street.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(duration) the time during which something continues