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The phrase "affects 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 significantly affects the duration of the event, causing delays and rescheduling."
Alternatives: "influences the length of" or "determines the time span of".
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We enquire whether an individual's trade union membership affects the duration of vacation.
Temperature is a parameter that considerably affects the duration of the induction period, since the latter is proportional to temperature.
Furthermore, initial magnetization angle of the MTJ affects the duration of the write operation, since it induces extra resistance when the angle is not aligned properly at the initial state.
This section then focuses on the change in well-being reported upon losing one's job (Δ H a p) to test whether it affects the duration of unemployment and the probability of searching for a job.
Given the industrial relations setting in Germany, where collective contracts are generally applied to all employees in a firm irrespective of whether they belong to a trade union or not, we focus on the second channel and enquire whether an individual's union membership status affects the duration of vacation.
Although our experiment was not designed to distinguish among different theoretical models of agonistic contest settlement (see above), we also tested a common prediction of these models that the size of participants' weaponry affects the duration of contests.
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However, BaCl2-evoked astrocyte depolarization did not affect the duration of action potentials during barrage firing (Fig. 2e).
Temperature significantly affected the duration of incubation and most hatchling traits examined.
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.
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