1.   Both films are intimate epics spanning decades that involve initially likable young men who accede to power and gradually grow isolated, imperious and coldly savage.

2.   Both films are intimate epics spanning decades that involve initially likeable young men who accede to power and gradually grow isolated, imperious and coldly savage.

3.   A novel spanning several decades of Chinese history.

4.   His studies, spanning several decades, focused on the earliest English settlements in Massachusetts, where he directed the first explorations at Plymouth, and Virginia.

5.   If there was one common denominator spanning the decades, it was the way in which cup campaigns were financed and conducted.

6.   In a tradition that has spanned decades, the shifts at San Antonio fire stations are likely to begin in the kitchen, concocting various degrees of salsa.

7.   The sequels for these films spanned a decade.

8.   Their businesses have spanned many decades.

9.   Truth is, Washington is a living museum, since it spans the decades from Colonial America through antebellum times and the Victorian era to the present.

10.   Connelly trained with a group of runners whose ages span several decades.