Sentence:  After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World , for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism , Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said : `` I am not interested in how <WSD>long</WSD> a bee can live in a vacuum , or how far it can fly . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified