Example sentences of "time interval " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a universal characteristic of higher animals that they senesce ; that is , the likelihood of their dying in a given time interval , say a year , increases as they grow older , and often fecundity declines . |
| 2 | Herodotus was able to establish some kind of time-sequence for the two centuries before his time , but he was a more diffuse writer than Thucydides , who was concerned with many events occurring in a shorter time interval . |
| 3 | By thus increasing the time interval between successive poisonings , the owls can reduce labour and material costs and lessen the impact of pesticides on the environment as a whole . |
| 4 | The time interval between the mother eating the food and the baby suffering symptoms can vary from one day to several days . |
| 5 | Clearly , the longer the time interval between the two assessments the greater the chances that there will be differences . |
| 6 | External reliability can be measured by comparing the test scores obtained by one tester working with the same group of children on two separate occasions separated by a short time interval . |
| 7 | Our finite-difference scheme solves equations ( 1 ) -(4) numerically , beginning at an altitude of 100km , and calculating the decrease in altitude d h over a time interval d t according to . |
| 8 | Using the theory outlined in Fig.1 ( ref.10 ) , the time interval t ( 5.3min ) between the events seen by EISCAT and the step in the lower cut-off of the ion energy seen by F10 ( from E 1 1.2 keV to E 2 200eV ) yield a distance from the satellite to the neutral line ( X in Fig.1 ) of d10 5 km ( 16 Earth radii R E ) . |
| 9 | A total of 112 pulse arrival times over a 120-day time interval were collected for this pulsar . |
| 10 | The solution to this problem is to select one of a number of morphological criteria , observe the embryos in culture at defined intervals ( e.g. every 30 min or every hour ) , and select those embryos that have attained a particular stage within the preceding chosen time interval . |
| 11 | The one unambiguous method of obtaining such cells it to disaggregate embryos to single cells and observe the cultures at a defined time interval as discussed in Section 3 . |
| 12 | Pool pairs of cells that have divided within a chosen time interval and culture until they attain the appropriate age . |
| 13 | Oocytes in MI must be collected from ovarian follicles after the required time interval following injection of follicle-stimulating hormone [ pregnant mare 's serum gonadotropin ( PMSG ) and human chorionic gonadotrophin ( hCG ) . |
| 14 | In Example 12 the temperature change over a time interval was to be worked out . |
| 15 | The following time interval questions related to bus timetables ( see Example 41 ) given in a thematic test on a day out trip . |
| 16 | In another test there was an item involving the same date and time interval but a calendar was provided . |
| 17 | The usefulness of this framework was limited , however , as the dates of occupation were known for very few sites ; and furthermore , the time interval between sites and finds was also unknown . |
| 18 | Innovation may occur after a considerable time interval from invention . |
| 19 | Even when active , a time interval does not seem the same to a cicada as to a ground squirrel or to ourselves . |
| 20 | The time interval between one bird stopping and the other starting is so short that we can not detect it , and the duet sounds to us like a continuous solo . |
| 21 | We agree that in broad terms the mean number of heterosexual partners reported by men must be equal to the mean number reported by women over a specified time interval in a closed population . |
| 22 | The speed of a pulse of light is the distance it travels between two events , divided by the time interval between the events . |
| 23 | Dysmap works by solving a large number of simultaneous equations at specified time intervals , using the information already calculated for the previous time interval as the basis for the current series of calculations . |
| 24 | The tower clock by the bed told her it was five-fifteen , almost three then , if she remembered the time interval correctly . |
| 25 | Now , suppose that a pattern mask is presented during the time interval between the activation of the target 's letter detector , and the transmission of the code from the letter detector level to the appropriate output system . |
| 26 | More generally , if reaction time is plotted against the time interval between target and recognition point , the result should be a function which increases linearly . |
| 27 | The distance from the Earth to the spacecraft can be determined very accurately from the time interval between sending a radio signal to the spacecraft , which it receives and immediately acknowledges by sending a signal to the Earth with its own radio , and the receipt on the Earth of the acknowledgement . |
| 28 | What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t . |
| 29 | The time interval between the arrival of successive waves at the spaceship would get longer and longer , so the light from the star would appear redder and redder and fainter and fainter . |
| 30 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |