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lifetime English

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lifetime

A lifetime is the duration of the life of someone or something.

lifetime

(= life) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) the battery had a short life he lived a long and happy life

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Simple sentences

Communism will never be reached in my lifetime.
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
About the wedding. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction, so instead of doing it on a shoestring, why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?
A trip to Mars may become possible in my lifetime.
A lifetime is short, but feels long.
The lifetime of a butterfly is three days.
Never in a lifetime!
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I wish you a lifetime of happiness.
I wish you both a lifetime of happiness.
It's a once in a lifetime experience.
A home is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase so you don't want to make any snap decisions.
You're very lucky you know! A such thing happen only once in a lifetime.
He wasn't about to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime chance.
Tatoeba: We've got more sentences than your mom could ever say in her lifetime.
Give a man a fish and he'll have dinner for a night; teach a man to fish and he will have dinner for a lifetime.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Her dream of a lifetime finally came true.

Movie subtitles

Enough to last me a lifetime.
A lifetime of pain and disfigurement?
It was a lifetime ago.
I'm just about to miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, that's all.
The stats you gave me are for your whole lifetime.
I would never pressure you, I mean, this is an opportunity of a lifetime.
If there's people in all those houses it'd take a lifetime to meet them.
For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
I have devoted my lifetime to the study of many strange things, little-known facts which the world is perhaps better off not knowing.
Considering that you have not yet lived even one entire lifetime, you are a wise man, Professor.
A little of you is worth a lifetime with any other woman.
It's the thrill of a lifetime.
And Stephanie and I have given him a few pointers it would take most men a lifetime to acquire.
But believe me when I tell you, Captain. you're looking at a good luck charm of a lifetime.
One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime.
Mr. Harker, I have devoted my lifetime to the study of many strange things, little-known facts, which the world is perhaps better off not knowing.
That's about the nicest thing that's been said to me this lifetime.
We have witnesses from Mandrake Falls, who will tell of his conduct throughout his lifetime, proving that his derangement is neither a recent nor a temporary one.
But I don't want the savings of a lifetime wiped out in the twinkling of an eye.
The answer to the confusion and bewilderment of a lifetime.
I banish you and your followers from England for the remainder of my lifetime.
The man who gets you is gonna have a lifetime of misery!
It was what she asked and after all, a couple of years isn't a lifetime.
And they want to keep it for an entire lifetime.
Are you going to be afraid of Gim Bong Gu for a lifetime and hide in the palace?
How nice it will be if you have the ability, to tell who's your lifetime soul mate just by touching here like this?
After a lifetime of treating her like a dog with scurvy?
In their lifetime they were my enemies.
One wears it only once in a lifetime.
At least a lifetime.
How many times you got a murderer locked up in a desk? Once in a lifetime.
Now, listen, this is an opportunity of a lifetime.
That's honor enough for a lifetime.

News and current affairs

Around one-third of the children are malnourished, and will consequently suffer a lifetime of physical and cognitive disabilities.
And, partly because an American child's lifetime prospects are more dependent on his or her parents' income and education than in other advanced countries, the US now has the least equality of opportunity of any advanced country.
Solemn promises made over the years would have to be broken (people would not get the social services that they paid for with a lifetime of high taxes), lives would be shortened (less money for hospitals and nursing homes), and overall hardship increased.
Moreover, throughout NAFTA's lifetime income and wealth have been further concentrated within the elite sectors of US and Canadian society.
Obama muddled his message further by admitting that he did not expect to see abolition in his lifetime.
A woman in Yemen will on average give birth to more than 7 children in her lifetime.
Researchers estimate that these additional benefits are worth even more than the added lifetime income from a college degree.
Events that were supposed to happen once in a century - or even once in the lifetime of the universe - seemed to happen every ten years.
Most Israelis - even those hoping to see, in their lifetime, an independent and prosperous Palestine - agree that the attack on Hamas was necessary.
Climate change negotiations are arguably the most important of our lifetime, because their outcome will determine the fate of our planet.
Japan, for example, is starting to experience a huge retirement bulge, implying a sharp reduction in savings as the elderly start to draw down lifetime reserves.
Reports of Vlad's cruel method - by no means unusual at the time - were already in circulation during his lifetime, and Corvinus probably gave his brutality a particularly bloodthirsty spin.
Few central bank governors have the kind of hagiography lavished upon them, especially in their lifetime, that Greenspan has had.
But others were consistent with their lifetime commitments.
If that is true, then Sarkozy missed the romantic opportunity of a lifetime.
But if you infer from this that people spend a lot of time planning the lifetime accumulation of their own wealth, you would be wrong.
One important question is whether we see happiness as the surplus of pleasure over pain experienced over a lifetime, or as the degree to which we are satisfied with our lives.
The World Bank estimates that over a third of all children in Indonesia, for example, suffer from stunted growth, confronting them with the risk of lifetime effects on fitness and cognitive development.
In India a decade ago, students who chose careers in public service could expect lifetime earnings of between a fifth to a third of their private sector counterparts.
Within my adult lifetime, we have moved from the murder of civil-rights campaigners in the US to the election of a black president.
With the right growth strategy, far-reaching change can come within a person's lifetime - sometimes more than once.
My hope is that I can witness a third economic transformation in my lifetime, this time in Ethiopia and other countries in Africa.
One other thing to keep in mind about Yeltsin is this: Russian leaders are not prepared mentally to leave office in their lifetime.

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