Example sentences of "the time period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not really ; the time period over which the returns are expected to arrive should not affect the investors ' overall requirements . |
| 2 | Mr John MacMillan , tribunal chairman , said it was proper to extend the time period ‘ in the interests of justice ’ . |
| 3 | Effective management requires accurate timber inventories , data on productivity and predictions of future growth ; determination of the rotation age , which is the age of a stand at harvest , is also crucial and depends on the species and the time period required for optimum growth . |
| 4 | The type of natural disaster determines the time period within which the road network has to be evacuated . |
| 5 | In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question . |
| 6 | For example , suppose that the time period involved is a year and that the base year is chosen to be 1980 . |
| 7 | The time period is determined by the resistor network R5 to R15 which are switched through S2 . |
| 8 | The time period of IC2 , during which the solenoid valve will be operating , depends on the adjustment of potentiometer VR2 in conjunction with fixed resistor R8 and capacitor C5 . |
| 9 | With VR2 providing minimum resistance the time period is less than one second but at maximum resistance , it is four minutes approximately . |
| 10 | In any case , the exact value of the time period — that is , the time during which the hose operates — is not thought to be particularly critical . |
| 11 | Additional capacitors could also be used to increase the time period . |
| 12 | The time period of one complete cycle of this oscillator is given by the formula : where V± and V- are the high and low switching thresholds of the Schmitt trigger input . |
| 13 | Firstly , it causes the time period between the date of the accident and the appearance of the report in public to be extended , usually by at least six months . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the time period within which the information is to be captured may be too short , in that the entrepreneur may lack the credit and capital facilities to capitalise on the opportunity . |
| 15 | First , there is no accepted definition of the time period for which readmissions should be calculated . |
| 16 | However , four criteria of inclusion needed to be established before we started to ‘ count heads ’ : the definition of a case , the geographical boundaries of the count , the time period , and the type of estimate . |
| 17 | They argue that the time period in which the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ runs its course has a fixed length , due to the speed at which this ‘ infectious behaviour ’ saturates the ‘ susceptible ’ population by the processes of microdiffusion and macrodiffusion . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , in the time period available , there was considerable shortfall due either to delays in the courts or the file having been impossible to trace for some reason . |
| 19 | Whilst the overall sums have been low , and there has also been criticism that the time period for these grants has been too short for the more innovative projects , some success in the movement of mentally handicapped and ill people into the community has been achieved . |
| 20 | which is equivalent to the result derived by Dusak ( 1973 ) when the time period ends at time T ( delivery ) . |
| 21 | With transactions data the possibility exists of shortening the time period used ( to hours , say ) , and measuring maturity by the number of hours to delivery . |
| 22 | To overcome this problem , Parkinson ( 1980 ) devised an estimator of the variance of price changes ( ΔX ) that uses the high and low prices during the time period from t -1 to t . |
| 23 | This is because both are positive functions of the rate of arrival of information during the time period . |
| 24 | Firstly , in my setting could the interventions listed be applied with the same likely success as in the time period and setting reflected in the league table ? |
| 25 | Time is assumed discrete , but the time period is so short that the probability of two or more vacancies coming to the individual 's notice within any given period is zero . |
| 26 | The time period of these rates is not known to me . |
| 27 | To return to the theses , even in the case of the 68 thesis-derived first papers appearing in SJG , this is still under 10% of the total content of the journal over the time period . |
| 28 | In the cases of Newcastle , Strathclyde , Aberdeen and Dundee geology departments , more than one-third of the students who have undertaken Ph D research in Scottish geology have not published any papers , related or otherwise , in the time period under review . |
| 29 | Section fourteen reduced the time period for entitlement of guaranteed payments and , perhaps worst of all , sections eleven twelve and thirteen on maternity rights affected the rights of women to return to work . |
| 30 | Ann Ab Return ; annual abnormal return ( per cent ) , this is calculated in the same way as the last measurement , the only difference being the time period under consideration . |