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To help compare
orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 3.2year s and 32 years (108second s and 109 seconds). "See also" times of other orders of magnitude.* Shorter times
* 3.3 years --half life ofrhodium -101
* 4 years -- full term of thePresident of the United States ; (roughly) anOlympiad .
* 4.37 years -- the length of time for light fromAlpha Centauri to reachEarth
* 4.6 years -- orbital period of Ceres
* 5.2714 years -- half life ofcobalt -60
* 6 years -- full term of a Senator in the United States
* 7 years -- the interval between leap seconds onDecember 31 ,1998 andDecember 31 ,2005 , the longest oneas of 2006
* 10 years -- onedecade = 3.16 × 108 seconds
* 11 years --sunspot activity cycle (7.5 to 11 years)
* 11.87 years -- one orbit of Jupiter
* 13 years -- typical time to complete K-12 education in the United States.
* 13.08 years -- half life ofcalifornium -250
* 15 years -- age at which one is first eligible to receive a driver's license in New Zealand.
* 16 years -- usual age at which one is first eligible to receive a driver's license in most States of the United States.
* 16.13 years -- half life ofniobium meta state Nb-93m
* 18.03 years --Saros cycle , the period ofsolar eclipse s andlunar eclipse s
* 19.0002 years -- 235month s (1Metonic cycle )
* 29 years -- recorded maximum lifespan of adog
* 29.1 years -- half life ofcurium -243
* 29.458 years -- one orbit of Saturn
* Longer times
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