Noun
an amount of time
Source: WordNetThe time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated. Carl Menger
The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days... Rick Warren
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period. Laetitia Casta
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. Walter Becker
I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s. Emilie de Ravin
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through. Karen Joy Fowler