1.   Computer game magazines have been heaping praise the last few months on a game in which players attempt to build successful empires to span the ages.

2.   Of course, the no-no that spans the ages is food in class, always disruptive.

3.   Prodigiously researched, scrupulously documented, and well-written biography of a pol who spanned the ages of Roosevelt and Reagan.

4.   Their babies are the youngest of the prison children of Texas, a group spanning every age from infants to teens.

5.   The Borghese is no mammoth repository of art, like the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum, with their vast storehouses of treasures spanning the ages.