At times it still feels like yesterday, otherwise it seems a ________ away.

Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their _________.

To make matters worse, because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation, the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a ________ of misery. 

A small brownish butterfly with a _______ of less than a week and a wingspan shorter than your little finger.

This kind of thing happens once in a ________.

It is recommended that a copy of the ________ database files be taken prior to running the program.

Charles was too sensitive for his liking, too intellectual, too philosophical, and although Charles adored his father and has spent a ________ trying to please him and be as he would like, he has never really.

After a ________ of travelling, the Scottish novelist finally settled in Western Samoa in 1890, four years before his death.

When they become more active and curious, crawling babies and toddlers are increasingly vulnerable to accidents in the home and, as has already been described, falls, burns, scalds and accidental poisoning are major causes of injury and death at this stage of the ________. 

The old royal library had been given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. George III employed Barnard as chief agent in his ________ endeavour to build up a new collection, which later came to be known as the King's Library.