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spanned

verb as in stretch over

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Fisher-Becker was born in London on Nov. 25, 1961, and enjoyed a varied acting career that began in the late 1980s and spanned TV series, movies, commercials and plays.

Fugard wrote more than 30 plays in a career that spanned 70 years, making his mark with The Blood Knot in 1961.

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“Always looking for new challenges and keen to work with different musicians,” his family’s statement read, James was “incessantly creative and a musical tour de force, over a career which spanned more than six decades.”

At the time, the identity of the boy's parents was not known but they were identified after an investigation by the police that spanned over two decades.

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One female had a home range that was less than a square kilometer, while another female’s range straddling L.A. and San Bernardino counties spanned 114 square kilometers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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