The phrase "a mean stage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a phase or period characterized by unkindness or harshness, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "During the project, we went through a mean stage where team members were not supportive of each other."
Alternatives: "a harsh phase" or "a cruel period".
To compare the hands and to show correlations between comorbidity and the stage of the disease we calculated a mean stage of affection per hand.
Among the 65 patients who were submitted to the liver biopsies (Table 3), a mean stage of fibrosis of 2.4 was determined for genotype A, 1 for genotype C, 2 for genotype D and 3 for genotype F (P = 0.1148).
At 12 months, only 18 (33%) recalled having made a quit attempt lasting at least 24 hours in the previous year, and there was a mean stage of change shift of 0.17.
With respect to physiologic change, Case A's mean stage transition duration time decreased from 830 ms pre-treatment to 100 ms post-treatment.
Similar to the DRH designs, the execution times for the software designs are also measured in a sequence: mean (Stage 1) → covariance matrix (Stage 2) → eigenvalue (Stage 3) → PC (Stage 4).
These fixed effects were used to calculate a mean slope for each region, and the difference between region-level slopes was tested with a one-sided t-test for an alternative that the mean stage of Cascades populations is larger (i.e., phenological development is more advanced) than the mean stage in Willamette Valley populations at a given physiological time (accumulated degree days).
The multiple regression analysis resulted in a 2010 model of mean stage of −0.57 + 0.02*Degree Days + 0.33*I (Valley) − 0.01*Degree Days*I Valley), where I Valley) is 1 when the outcome comes from the Willamette Valley and 0 otherwise.
Mean stage at a given physiological time was modeled as a function of degree days, regions, sites within regions (2011 only), and interactions between degree days and regions.
Most were delivered without any trauma, seven experienced an assisted delivery, either by vacuum extraction or assisted breech birth, and with a mean second stage of labor of 32 min.
"I'm a mean, a stage, a cow in calf.
Did the lead producers' devotion to Mr. Mamet — and the hope of a lucrative "Glengarry" revival — mean staging a new work that wasn't right, or ready, for Broadway?
