Definition of "period of time" []

• An amount of time (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Throughout the brief period of time in which she remained present, Michelle grunted loudly and hit herself in the face."
• "Like most of the Mexican girls and gay boys I knew, I went through a vicious, life-consuming Morrissey phase in high school, one that for a period of time made me hate the queen of England and Margaret Thatcher more than I hated the Los Angeles Police Department."
• "Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihályi identifies flow as a special state of mind in which there is total absorption for a period of time in a given activity."