epoch
The present political system is a hangover from the colonial era.现行的政治制度是殖民时期遗留下来的。
He remembers the 1960s as being an era of sexual permissiveness.
The president's speech heralds a new era in foreign policy.总统的演说预示着一个外交政策新时代的开始。
We are on the threshold of a new era in European relations.
The era was characterized by political and cultural turbulence.在那个时代里，政治和文化都动荡不安。
The Mesoproterozoic era occurred from 1,600 to 1,000 million years ago.

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Long periods of time
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a long haulidiom
aeon
age
be in something for the long haulidiom
donkey
eon
epoch
eternity
for days, weeks, months, years, etc.
for eternity
forever and a dayidiom
good
haul
long
long-stay
month
not in a month of Sundaysidiom
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era | American Dictionary

era
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɪər·ə, ˈer·ə/
a period of time known for particular events or developments:
She was one of the more remarkable women of her era.

ERA | Business English

ERA
noun[ C ]
 GOVERNMENT, LAWukus
→ Equal Rights Amendment

Examples of era

era
In the era of high-precision cross-sectional echocardiography, it now seems redundant to continue using normal data obtained from formalin-fixed autopsy specimens.
These new parties often had origins in the civil society which was allowed to exist during the authoritarian era.
Also, much of this research has been conducted by musicologists, many of whom specialise in past eras of music history.
Looking back over the twentieth century it is easy to see how extensively the modern era has been permeated by the notion of celebrity.
One of the most important institutional reforms that would help usher in the era of the free farmer is a thoroughgoing land reform.
The greatness of his poetry, and the fascination of the era which produced it, meanwhile remain undisputed.
First, fraternal rhetoric prepared working-class members for the industrial era rather than teaching them to question or challenge it.
That was an era in which someone with a technical answer - an immunization or an antibiotic - really did know best.
Recent developments suggest we may soon see a new era of collaboration between linguistics and psychology that, one hopes, will be more enduring.
Two things, however, make the era important in terms of popular music policy and export.
The problem is that such accounts do little to aid an understanding of the popular music industries in the contemporary era.
It covers the eighteenth century (the pre-plantation era) and serves as an historical background to the period of interest to the author : 1800-1850.
Concomitantly, we see the emergence of professionally oriented armies that are no longer the mass armies of the modern era preparing for total war.
Rethinking assimilation theory for a new era of immigration.
In the immediate post-cold-war era it was widely believed that neoliberalism would triumph.
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era

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baroque era
Okay, it's exciting to see a new musical that mixes filthy talk with music that alludes to the baroque era.
bygone era
They were, in a sense, the swansong of the bygone era of violent resistance.
colonial era
One chapter illuminates the colonial era, eight the nineteenth century, and four the twentieth century.
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