Translation for "length of time spent" to spanish

Length of time spent

• tiempo transcurrido
• duraci贸n del tiempo pasado

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tiempo transcurrido

Until that moment, it had never occurred to him that he might not be an American, or, more precisely, that his way of being an American was any less authentic than the way Dougie and the other boys were American, but that was what his friend seemed to be asserting: that there was a difference between them, an elusive, indefinable quality that had to do with black-hatted English ancestors and the length of time spent on this side of the ocean and the money to live in four-story townhouses on the Upper East Side that made some families more American than others, and in the end the difference was so great that the less American families could barely be considered American at all.
Hasta aquel momento nunca se le había ocurrido que no pudiera ser norteamericano, o, mejor dicho, que su forma de ser norteamericano fuese menos auténtica que la manera en que Dougie y los demás chicos eran norteamericanos, pero eso era lo que su amigo parecía afirmar: que había diferencia entre ellos, una cualidad huidiza, indefinible, referida a ancestros ingleses de sombrero negro y al tiempo transcurrido desde entonces en esta orilla del océano viviendo en mansiones de cuatro plantas en el Upper East Side, eso daba a ciertas familias un carácter más americano que a otras, y al final la diferencia llegaba a ser tan enorme que las familias menos americanas apenas podían considerarse estadounidenses en absoluto.