10:29 Sep 19, 2018 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Sheila Wilson Spain Local time: 19:33 | ||||||
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2 +4 | "an area" of time |
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4 +1 | a desert |
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4 | a very long stretch of time filled with nothing // a large "block of time" of emptiness // .... |
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4 | a duration of time |
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"an area" of time Explanation: Difficult to be sure about this as it isn't an idiomatic expression, AFAIK. Maybe it's non-native English, although it doesn't read that way. Maybe an English native speaker who (has) lived abroad for a long while and gained some interference from another language. But we do sometimes use "quarter" to mean an area, a district in English. Jewish Quarter, Latin Quarter... So this could mean her days were just an empty area of time. |
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