Example sentences of "the time span " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time span which is likely to be required for a generation of more effective large-scale entrepreneurs to evolve is considerable . |
| 2 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 3 | The time span of the objects runs from the invasion of Alexander the Great in 329–325 BC to the eve of the Islamic conquest in the eighth century AD . |
| 4 | The time span of the thinking is too long , it makes the present moment arbitrary , a point on a graph that is in itself meaningless . |
| 5 | A classical model was produced by Penck and Bruckner in 1909 and this involved four main glaciations although it has subsequently been appreciated that the sediments on which this four-fold sequence was based represented only a small proportion of the time span , and unconformities between each successive terrace probably conceal events lost to the record regionally or locally ( Bowen , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | All numbers represent years , the difference between each pair showing the time span within which the particular epiphyses unite . |
| 7 | The increased flow of oil has also meant a marginal reduction in the time span of crude oil carriers visiting the terminal from seven to 6.5 days . |
| 8 | The Green Paper which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health published this summer , entitled ’ The Health of the Nation ’ , suggests , as part of the consultation about health targets , that we should adopt as a target a further reduction , within the time span of the White Paper , when it is published , of that proportion of the population who smoke from 33 per cent . |
| 9 | This difference was partly attributed to differing calculation methods as to the time span over which PWRs should be depreciated and the rate of return expected from investment . |
| 10 | Similarly , in 3 the time span which is indicated by " now " is limited to the few seconds immediately following the utterance , whereas in 4 the reference of " now " extends well before and after the time of utterance . |
| 11 | The four quarterly effects ( which we are assuming to be invariant during the time span of the data ) can now be estimated from the averages of corresponding quarters over these seven years . |