It might have been a week that had passed instead of eight years since I last saw it.

As if they'd been apart five days instead of five years.

Instead of three years, we'll make it eighteen months.

Instead of 60 years, the minimum age was reduced again to 58 years.

They normally serve for a year and four months instead of three years.

Primary school could be done in four instead of six years, with eight hour school days, and no vacation time.

Instead of three years, as in the past, it would take 18 months.

Months, I estimate, instead of the two or three years a really difficult case can take.

"I feel like this now should be a time for healing instead of two years from now."

That lets us accelerate in a week instead of two years.