span of attention

In an effort to gain early attention, he focused his attention on the Iowa precinct caucuses, which had never mattered much.

This attracted much attention, and the London journals praised the artist.

His parents were peasants and he wrought as a day laborer till he attracted attention.

The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.

The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.

Claude de Vert died; he devoted much attention to the ceremonies of the church of Rome, of which he wrote a history.