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- noun Alternative spelling of
lifetime .
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Examples
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So had the steward, who had spent most of a life-time in sailing-ships.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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This is no legal fiction, it is the foundation of our legal system and allowing judges to cultivate a life-time of experience and practice with the law, resolving the highest, and most problematic areas of the law is good not only for the political system, but also for continuity within our legal system. mark f Says:
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It was on, and on, through all Kona, and all Kau, from Hoopuloa and Kapua to Honuapo and Punaluu, a life-time of living compressed into two short weeks.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Announcing the 2011 withdrawal was the most moronic decision about a war that I have seen a president of the USA make in my life-time.
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan 2009
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No one ran against him, he gets $150K/yr from the CoP and has life-time gold plated benefits.
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Yet when Kazan was given an honorary Oscar for life-time achievement, the heavily liberal Hollywood crowd booed.
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Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life-time [except to his brother].
"A Stellar Performer" « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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As a life-time Republican, and with the words of her instructors that
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Some become larger capitalists; some go into the professions; the rest spend the money and start rotting when it's gone, and if it lasts their life-time their children do the rotting for them.
CHAPTER V 2010
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They would much prefer life-time roles in a lineage dominated House of Lords.
Kennedy urges immediate Senate replacement if vacancy occurs 2009
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