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- noun Plural form of
life-time .
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Examples
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I just don't think it's that shocking or radical a notion that people for whom statehood actually is something that happened in their own life-times might want to revisit the decision... particularly with so many in the lower 48 who feel entirely comfortable telling them how to manage their wildlife and forbidding them developing their own resources as they see fit.
Axelrod: "It’s surreal, so much of this is... It’s kind of hard to absorb and get your hands around all we’re trying to do." Ann Althouse 2009
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The people in question control probably the majority of money that, for instance, people who write poetry are going to be paid in our life-times.
john ashbery | the serious doll « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Are there no effective measures that a person could have taken during their working life-times to provide medical care in their home country for themselves after retirement?
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Are there no effective measures that a person could have taken during their working life-times to provide medical care in their home country for themselves after retirement?
Page 2 2006
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Are there no effective measures that a person could have taken during their working life-times to provide medical care in their home country for themselves after retirement?
Page 2 2006
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As for Machlup and Morgenstern --- the contributions are self-evident, from monopoly and competition to the knowledge economy; and the entire field of game theory and mixed strategy equilibrium --- they both not only achieved fame in their life-times, but lasting fame in the discipline of economics.
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"I can find another job," he says, "but this is something that happens once in 10,000 life-times."
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Are there no effective measures that a person could have taken during their working life-times to provide medical care in their home country for themselves after retirement?
Page 2 2006
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Well informed people, and people who don’t have a wierd crush on the monkey evidently vote yes, stupid people who have no idea what happened within their own life-times, vote no.
Think Progress » Bush In 2003: ‘We Will Not Tolerate Nuclear Weapons in North Korea’ 2006
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Free radicals are very difficult to study due to their short life-times - measured in millionth's of a second.
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