311 In the space of twenty minutes the eggs were roasted quite hard. §344 In the space of a tide, the salt water has not time to‥return. 197 The former revolves in the space of ten hours. Ancients 99 For the space of many generations it hath been a shop of Arts and Artists. 174 In the water whereof, you cannot indure to hold your hand, the space of an Ave Maria. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 28 The leaves‥dronken in wine by the space of seven dayes healeth the Jaundes. 98 He bought the space of xx ti yere Irne‥and Retailled the same. 1484 Caxton Fables of Alfonce i, festyed hym by the space of xiiij dayes. 91 Late it stande stille without mouyng by þe space of a ‘pater noster’. 1871 Rossetti Poems, Staff & Scrip xxx, O changed in little space!‥ O pale that was so red! 178 A ten years' truce, in short, was‥little more than space allowed for making new preparations for war. 16 Short space ensued I was not held‥Long in expectance. 1782 Cowper Gilpin 242 The turnpike gates again Flew open in short space. 1700 Dryden Sigismunda & Guiscardo 27 To her Father's Court in little space Restor'd anew. 18 They become whole and frolicke, in small space. 307 With intervale and space necessare of þe law vsit. (1652) 130 A yere we take or more for our respyte: For in lesse space our Calxe wyll not be made. c1450 Holland Howlat 34 All thar names to nevyn‥war prolixt and lang, and lenthing of space. 9 And quhen he herd‥at sic space he had Till purvay hym, he ves rycht glad. (1810) 213 Grace God gaf him here, þis lond to kepe long space.
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