"span" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

span sustantivo

sustantivo + span
Kolokacji: 27
life span • time span • attention span • span of several days • wing span • ...
span + verbo
Kolokacji: 4
span covering • span opens • span carries • span collapses
adjetivo + span
Kolokacji: 48
short span • long span • main span • brief span • entire span • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) main, central, horizontal
Kolokacji: 3
(3) entire, whole
Kolokacji: 2
1. single span = jeden okres single span
2. new span = nowy okres new span
3. two-year span = dwuletni okres two-year span
4. wooden span = drewniany okres wooden span
  • The wooden span swung clattering down and crashed against the wall of the tower.
  • The bridge was built from 1888 through 1890 to replace a wooden span.
  • A wooden span that looked as old as time already crossed it.
  • This wooden span was called New Bridge to distinguish it from an older crossing several miles upstream.
  • The bridge was severely damaged by the flood of 1903 in which it lost one of its three wooden spans.
  • Five great piers of tapered stone supported the monstrous wooden span.
  • The new steel structure was built alongside of the old wooden span, false work erected on the upstream side.
  • Gil studied the wooden span and the dozen or so faces staring round-eyed at them from the ramparts above.
  • The wooden span was replaced with a steel one consisting of eight welded beams.
  • Covered bridges generally lasted five times longer than open wooden spans, according to the bridge society.
5. one-year span = roczny okres one-year span
(6) average, natural, concrete
Kolokacji: 3
(7) equal, unequal
Kolokacji: 2
(11) eastern, western
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + span
Kolokacji: 10
during that span • over a span • within a span • in a span • for a span • ...

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