Example sentences of "up period " in BNC.

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1 Changes in grade during the follow up period were not analysed .
2 For each employee , the number of spells of sickness absence of each type was computed and the follow up period was measured in person years .
3 The follow up period lasted three years , and the largest number of cycles observed was 33 .
4 The 41 women who did not report the result of their last insemination cycle ( over the entire follow up period ) were recorded as not successful up to their last but one cycle .
5 Changes in weight and waist-hip ratio during the three year follow up period could have led to misclassification of women .
6 Proportional hazard regression analysis over a 12 cycle follow up yielded essentially the same results as that over the total follow up period .
7 This discrepancy is disturbing , and it is not obvious how it could have arisen , especially because the abstract and the full paper report on the same follow up period .
8 During the follow up period there were only five ears in which fluid recurred and persisted for at least one year after they had been clear for at least one year .
9 Lichtiger reported that 11 of 15 patients with severe ulcerative colitis responded to a short course of intravenous ( IV ) cyclosporin ( 4 mg/kg/ day ) followed by oral cyclosporin ( 6–8 mg/kg/ day ) for six months , and that nine of the 11 responders remained in remission during the follow up period .
10 The follow up period ranged from 1 month to 9 years with a mean of 21 months .
11 However , the follow up period of three years is relatively short .
12 Six deaths occurred in group A ( 26% ) and 10 in group B ( 26% ) during the follow up period .
13 ( Procto- ) colectomy did not result in disappearance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies , during a follow up period ranging between two months and two years ( mean nine months ) .
14 Our study with a mean follow up period of 28.3 months ( range 2–80 ) clearly shows the longterm effectiveness of endoscopic treatment of Dieulafoy 's lesion .
15 The stent lumen remained patent and functional throughout the follow up period except in two patients who developed epithelial hyperplasia within the stent resulting in recurrent biliary obstruction , three and six months after placement .
16 There was no relapse bleeding during the 11 month follow up period .
17 The mean follow up period in outpatient clinics or by contacting the family practitioner was 13.8 months ( standard deviation ( SD ) 5.1 ) .
18 No other cause for anaemia was found in these patients and neither symptoms nor anaemia recurred during the follow up period .
19 Their anaemia did not recur over the follow up period .
20 None had connective tissue disease then or in the follow up period .
21 The mean follow up period was four years ( range 1–7 years ) .
22 The start of the follow up period was the date of the first lithotripsy session .
23 After the present study was designed , longterm studies using actuarial analysis were published , which showed that a longer follow up period than two years was required to establish reliable recurrence data .
24 Outcome has been assessed clinically and by ultrasound scanning in 92 patients with a median follow up period of 14 months ( six to 37 months ) .
25 Of the 15 patients with benign strictures follow up information has been obtained in 13 ( 87% ) with a follow up period of three to 10 years ( median six years ) .
26 Repeat colonoscopies were performed every 6 months for the entire 2 year follow up period , and any metachronous adenomas that had occurred were removed .
27 During the 24 month follow up period , 22 ( 40% ) of the 55 polyp patients developed metachronous polyps .
28 The main findings of this study can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) patients with adenomatous colorectal polyps generally showed a significant increase in the cytoproliferative activity of the most superficial portions of the rectal crypts compared with controls ; ( b ) this difference was primarily the result of an appreciable upward shift of replicating cells in patients destined to suffer from recurrent polyps ; the proliferative pattern of patients whose polyps did not recur after initial polypectomies were essentially similar to those of controls ; ( c ) the proliferative pattern of flat rectal mucosa did not change appreciably during the follow up period regardless of whether polyps recurred or not .
29 Within the polyp group , labelling pattern differences also emerged between the subgroup of patients in whom polyps recurred and those in whom the colon remained polyp free during the follow up period .
30 Ten patients ( 66.6% ) in the steroid group and five ( 41.6% ) in the enteral nutrition group relapsed within a year of discharge , but no differences were found in the cumulative probability of relapse during the follow up period .
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