span
 noun
 palmo
EN Near the hoardings on the canal he met the consumptive man with the doll's face and the brimless hat coming towards him down the slope of the bridge with little steps, tightly buttoned into his chocolate overcoat, and holding his furled umbrella a span or two from him like a divining rod.
GL Preto da barreira do canal atopou o tuberculoso con face de boneca e o sombreiro sen abas, descendo cara a el a pasiños pola baixada da ponte; levaba totalmente abotoado o abrigo de cor chocolate e sostiña o enrolado paraugas, a un ou dous palmos do corpo, cal se fose a variña dun mago.
 Fonte: RET (3474)
tempada
EN But twice in her life she had left the Cheniere Caminada, and then for the briefest span.
GL Só saíra dúas veces na súa vida de Chênière Caminada, e cando o fixo foi por unha curtísima tempada.
Fonte: ESP (1057)
intransitive verb
estenderse
EN The international eugenics movement, spanning from Sweden to Japan, was embraced by many intellectuals in China.
GL O movemento a favor da euxenesia, que se estendía de Suecia ó Xapón, foi apoiado por numerosos intelectuais chineses.
Fonte: C18 (458)
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