The Irish-American contribution to politics spans the entire ideological spectrum.

In all, Taylor's contributions to Iowa State spanned four decades.

His contribution to science thus spanned 60 years.

Original contributions span topics such as basic research, clinical studies, and population studies of hypertension.

Basudeb's major contribution to Bengali literature spanned from the early 1960s to mid 80's.

A. K. Ramanujan's theoretical and aesthetic contributions span several disciplinary areas.

Fisher's major contributions have been in equilibrium statistical mechanics, and have spanned the full range of that subject.

His contributions to the field of medicine spanned the better part of 75 years.

His contributions spanned several genres, including superheroes, horror, and fantasy.

Her contributions in film spanned 33 years.