The phrase "a general timeline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an overview or outline of events in chronological order without going into specific details.
Example: "The project manager provided a general timeline for the completion of the project phases, highlighting key milestones along the way."
Alternatives: "an overall schedule" or "a broad timeline".
As it moves into a crucial phase of deliberations on Iran, Washington wants any agreement on a new package of incentives for Tehran to include an understanding on a general timeline, so that Iran cannot drag out negotiations for several months, as it did on a temporary agreement last year.
A general timeline is provided as a resource for the instructor (Table 3).
Eventually he did explicitly say, "We have not pulled out of China", going on to give a general timeline of Google's initial steps to launch in China in 2006 and how things have progressed since then (you can see this start around 15:45).
Like rap, a genre with which it shares a general timeline, action movies saw their first and greatest flowering in the 1980s.
It contains a clearly presented narrative, but in a fragmented way, where days are chopped up into scenes that stay true to a general timeline but require no needless variations or resolutions.
"I know it was in a general timeline where that post was made, and yes, there was a pledge of allegiance," David Bowdich, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles office, told a news conference about a reported loyalty pledge posted on Facebook by Malik on the day of the attack.
Each two-hour episode has a specific focus but also takes us through a more general timeline of progress and setback; Goodman uses patients and their families through treatment to balance the intense and fascinating description of the research with the inevitably heart-wrenching realities.
There's still a lot left to learn about the Rift's consumer launch, however, including exactly when buyers will be able to put in for pre-orders and when the first units will ship, beyond a very general timeline.
To provide a rough estimate of the general timeline for P. davidi's arrival in Antarctica, we extended a molecular clock approach previously applied to Caenorhabditis [ 36] to approximate the divergence time between P. davidi and its closest known relative.
Most programs follow the same general timeline: coursework, comprehensive exams, a formal thesis/dissertation proposal, and finally the thesis/dissertation writing and defense.
A person would then be expected to submit a general expected timeline for the project.
