The phrase "a predictable period" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a time frame that can be anticipated or expected based on certain patterns or trends.
Example: "The data shows a predictable period of growth in sales during the holiday season."
Alternatives: "an expected duration" or "a foreseeable timeframe."
However, the clear pattern over the 100-year period was that an economic slump with high unemployment is almost invariably followed a predictable period later by novels that are rich in words expressing emotional unhappiness, the study found.
In addition, headaches recur within a predictable period after the last dose of medication, usually with reduced efficacy.
If the brain combines sensory input with internally generated predictions in this manner, observers' ability to detect the target should modulate with a predictable period as it is moved along the edge of the inducer.
Ideally, models of metastatic dormancy would consist of a population of cells that would become dormant, either as single cells or micrometastases, upon arrival in a secondary tissue, and emerge from dormancy after a predictable period of time and/or in response to experimental stimuli.
The administration itself, in a separate case in Pennsylvania, argued that coverage for skilled nursing care required some expectation that the beneficiary will improve materially in a reasonable and generally predictable period of time.
In order for Medicare to cover skilled nursing care, they said in a legal brief, "there must be an expectation that the beneficiary's condition will improve materially in a reasonable and generally predictable period of time".
Before Medicare will cover skilled nursing services, it said, "there must be an expectation that the beneficiary's condition will improve materially in a reasonable and generally predictable period of time, based on the physician's assessment".
Our results are potentially relevant for any biological system dependent on a food reserve for survival over a predictable time period.
But as Mr. Hevesi's remarks at City Hall suggested, this quiet and predictable period may be ending.
The presence of Norwegian director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) should help steer this away from predictable period telly territory.
Years from now, well after television transmitters are implanted in our brains and we are all making robot footmen do our bidding, I will still be watching this pleasurable, annoying, moving, picturesque, predictable period drama.
