The phrase "affect the duration of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how one factor influences the length of time something lasts or continues.
Example: "The weather conditions can significantly affect the duration of the event."
Alternatives: "influence the length of" or "impact the time frame of".
However, BaCl2-evoked astrocyte depolarization did not affect the duration of action potentials during barrage firing (Fig. 2e).
And law enforcement officials questioning a prisoner "probably lack the authority to affect the duration of his sentence".
Although there was no effect on daily lying time, DHA tended to affect the duration of lying bouts (P = 0.1).
In addition, neither ethanol nor ADH transgene affect the duration of shortening and relengthening in male or female mice.
To identify the lengthiest step of total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) in a teaching hospital and to determine which clinical factors affect the duration of this step.
Moreover, heat release rate of fire source and height of opened window significantly affect the duration of stage and temperature attenuation coefficient β.
The various interventions seemed to affect the duration of life in the same way across all individuals in the same population, regardless of whether chance or randomness had a short or long life in store for them.
Some studies suggest that early institution of precut is a safe and effective strategy even though the extent to which this approach may affect the duration of the ERCP is seldom addressed.
Moreover, the study also shows that factors like FR value and reward number may affect the duration of time actually engaged in social activity within rewards when full social contact is used as reinforcer.
Rapidly shifting species' phenologies under climate change have brought to light that we still need an improved understanding of how various abiotic and biotic factors affect the duration of life cycle events in order to predict species' responses to climate change.
This study utilised the unique opportunity to extract systematically collected repeated bulk-tank milk antibody measurements from all the Danish dairy herds during a 10-year period to perform a time-to-event analysis of the factors that affect the duration of test-positivity and the hazards of recovery from S. Dublin at herd level.
