what does ""decent window of time" mean?
Hadn’t known about them? Didn’t know the layout and history of the house well enough? Besides the guns—and there had to be six figures, easily, inside that case—the house contained countless valuable, portable items.
His grandmother would have noticed, eventually. But there’d been a decent window of time between her accident and when he himself had moved in. But if and when the intruder had used that window he’d apparently kept his focus on the basement.
Focused, Eli thought again. So it wasn’t simply about money, or why not take what came easily to hand? It was about treasure.

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what does ""decent window of time" mean?
Hadn’t known about them? Didn’t know the layout and history of the house well enough? Besides the guns—and there had to be six figures, easily, inside that case—the house contained countless valuable, portable items. 
His grandmother would have noticed, eventually. But there’d been a decent window of time between her accident and when he himself had moved in. But if and when the intruder had used that window he’d apparently kept his focus on the basement. 
Focused, Eli thought again. So it wasn’t simply about money, or why not take what came easily to hand? It was about treasure.

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A window of time is an idiom.  It's just another way to say 'an amount of time in which something can/could happen'.
When a window is open you can climb through it, correct?.  But, if I tell you that I am going to close the window in one minute, then you have one minute to climb through the window.

Here is another example:  tonight the sun will set between 7:15 - 7:30.  If you want to take a picture of the sunset you can't go out side at 6:30, or 8:00.  There is a small 'window of time' (15 minutes) in which you can take a nice picture of the sunset.  Only after the window opens (7:15) or before the window closes (8:30) are you able to take a picture of the sunset.
We might also call this a 'window of opportunity'.  
Decent simply means 'pretty good' or 'not bad' or 'OK'

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thank you so much

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Window of opportunity is another common idiom. It's that moment when you can take your chance, make your move, etc. It might be more than a moment, of course. The 'window' can be any length of time. And I suppose it's not simply about time. Other conditions have to be right too. When everything's right.... grab that opportunity! If you don't do it then, the window shuts! Ah! Too late!

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Hi stranger ;)

It means 'enough time'.

A 'window of time' is a space of available time between two incidents. A 'decent' window means that there was ample time between the accident and his moving in.

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