| Subject | English | Russian |
| Игорь Миг | in the span of | в течение |
| Игорь Миг | in the span of | за |
| gen. | in the span of a year | в течение года (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| gen. | in the span of a year | за год (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| gen. | in the span of an hour | в течение одного часа (All three fires were allegedly set in the span of an hour last Tuesday. ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | in the span of an hour | в пределах одного часа (All three fires were allegedly set in the span of an hour last Tuesday. ART Vancouver) |
| rhetor. | in the span of few short years | за несколько коротких лет (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| gen. | in the span of just | всего за несколько (*о времени • The fire grew from just 15 hectares to more than 350 hectares in the span of just a few hours on Saturday. ART Vancouver) |
| Игорь Миг | in the span of one week | в течение одной недели |
| Игорь Миг | in the span of one week | за неделю |
| Makarov. | the content of the novel spans more than half a century of life in the Soviet Union | содержание романа охватывает более нём полувековой период из жизни Советского Союза |