length(TIME)
 for the duration
for as long as something lasts: 直至结束;在…期间
I guess we're stuck with each other for the duration (of the journey).我想（旅程结束之前）这段时间我们两个要一直呆在一起。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continue & last
(it's) business as usualidiom
bash on
bubble away
carry (something) on
cease
cont.
echo
immortally
in the makingidiom
insist on doing something
isochronous
protract
protraction
push ahead
push on
run on
soldier
span
spin
stretch

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Periods of time - general words

duration | American Dictionary

duration
noun[ U ]
us/dʊˈreɪ·ʃən/
the length of time that something lasts:
He planned a stay of two years’ duration.

duration | Business English

duration
noun[ C or U ]
uk /djʊəˈreɪʃən/us
the length of time that something lasts:
a two-year/ten-month/six-week, etc. durationMost placements of agency IT staff are of a three-month or six-month duration.
Does the rate only apply for a limited period or for the duration of the loan?

Examples of duration

duration
On the other hand, they suggest which factors should not play a significant role in determining formation durations.
Yearly incidence is an average over the full durations of outbreaks.
The dashed lines are postalsurvey 95 % confidence bounds on mean outbreak durations.
418 ecules, within pulse durations shor ter than the time-scale for nuclear motions to occur.
A second phonetic factor is the frequent lengthening of phrasefinal segments, which results in longer closure durations among stops.
Studies of all durations were included first ; the analysis was then repeated using only studies of at least a year.
Conceptual models are presented, and case study treatment costs and durations are highlighted to aid environmental decision-making.
The dashed lines again indicate the mean durations of 0e0 and 0ah0 words in production.
Figure 6 exemplifies performed frequencies and their durations.
Musical time passes through a perspective made of volumes and durations that are continually changing against the background of an immemorial and intemporal pulsation.
Changes in speaking rate alter phonetically relevant properties of the speech signal, including formant center frequencies and formant transition durations.
Modeling the time evolution of laserinduced plasmas for various pulse durations and fluences.
Rather, "correctness" can be seen and heard in these temporal durations.
More rarely, a polyphonic hymn will use durations found in monophonic settings of the hymn.
Two analyses were performed on the verb-to-name durations between reduced and non-reduced utterances.
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Collocations withduration

duration

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average duration
The interviews had an averageduration of 11x2 hours.
brief duration
It might be the case that the agent-assigning role of by has a similar facilitating effect, the relatively briefduration of this morpheme notwithstanding.
duration of follow-up
The durationoffollow-up was a function of the time when treatment was performed.
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