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the time during which something continues- I take zinc tablets to help shorten the duration of a cold.
duration = the time during which something continues
- More frequent and longer duration exercise is associated with better health.
- I've asked Aldous to book me at the same place as the rest of the band, not just for the festival but the duration of the tour.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Albert Malvoisin, alarmed and impatient at the duration of their conference, now advanced to interrupt it.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- Let there be parades through every city in the land and a gala carnival of three days' duration, consisting of jousts, games, feasts, and follies."Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
- "And then probably back to France, as I'm still enlisted for the duration.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- Indecision had not hitherto been one of Newman's weaknesses, and in this case it was not of long duration.Henry James -- The American
- You and I will stand here for the duration of the act.Lemony Snicket -- The Bad Beginning
- And I know it was necessary that you had to cease to exist as my son to me for the duration of the emergency.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- Furthermore, in the absence of your regular duties, I appoint you Eragon and Saphira's guide for the duration of their stay.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- The happy state in which the family had spent the evening, as just recorded, was not of very long duration.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- And compared to the duration of life it did not seem to him slower than an awakening from sleep compared to the duration of a dream.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- "Ah, do keep it to yourself then, for the duration of the journey, and not go bragging, will you?" the young wife cried at him.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- She had come to Chicago for the duration of the fair and was renting a mansion near the mayor's.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- No Patton rushing for the Rhine, no beachheads to storm and win and hold for the duration.Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- You could judge the force and duration of the current by the intensity of Pearce's screams.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Unlike his brother, Leo XII Loayza had enjoyed a stable marriage of sixty years' duration, and he was always proud of not working on Sundays.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- On one trip that took place in the winter I remember that we each were assigned to a truck for the duration of the problem.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- "Well, every night I'd collect the ashtrays and I'd put them inside of my washing machine for the duration of the night.Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
duration = the time during which something continues
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