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lifetime

/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ sustantivo B2

En español: vida, eternidad, toda la vida

  1. The duration of the life of someone or something. · a project that will take many human lifetimes to complete· the operational lifetime of an aircraft component
  2. A long period of time. (informal) · I've been waiting a lifetime for a train.

Plural lifetimes

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Holmes balanced it on his knee and his eyes moved slowly and lovingly over the record of old cases, mixed with the accumulated information of a lifetime.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 50 · B2
“It is very interesting,” he said, “but it must be very tedious for a lifetime.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 647 · C1
It is a matter of history—that secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles—that Oberstein, eager to complete the coup of his lifetime, came to the lure and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in a British prison.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 40 · B2
Reynolds informed them, that it had been taken in his father’s lifetime.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 279 · B2

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