The phrase "any appreciable time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a duration that is significant enough to be noticed or considered.
Example: "The project was delayed by any appreciable time, which affected our overall timeline."
Alternatives: "any significant time" or "any considerable time".
Muscle, likewise, is sensitive to the damaging effect of shrapnel, being readily torn and unable to survive diminished blood supply for any appreciable time.
I attribute it to the fact that few justices have spent any appreciable time as a practicing attorney fighting for the rights of real people.
Muscle, likewise, is sensitive to the damaging effect of missiles, being readily torn and unable to survive diminished blood supply for any appreciable time.
The New Yorker, March 6 , 1948P. 21 A Few Notes: On the Atomic Age to Date: National Selected Mortician's, Inc., reported the rules of atomic funerals, one of which provides, "Remains that are not too highly radioactive may be viewed by the public if visitors file quickly past the casket instead of standing before it for any appreciable time".
A Few Notes: On the Atomic Age to Date: National Selected Mortician's, Inc., reported the rules of atomic funerals, one of which provides, "Remains that are not too highly radioactive may be viewed by the public if visitors file quickly past the casket instead of standing before it for any appreciable time".
According to my friends in the Park Service, the number of Americans who spend any appreciable time outdoors has plummeted over the past two decades.
To our knowledge, there are no studies assessing whether there are any appreciable time-trends in post-operative PROs, i.e., if the PROs after TKA have improved, worsened or remained stable over time.
Progress along the reaction coordinate cannot be identified with the time course of the reaction because any individual pair of reactants may reside for an appreciable time in the partially activated state represented by one of the intermediate complexes before final reaction is achieved.
A dollar or two should be added to the price usually paid for Janie's shoes, which would ensure their lasting an appreciable time longer than they usually did.
Examiners "have a special relationship and a special position of influence with respect to the banks they examine," he wrote, "and the potential for questions to arise is significantly greater in a situation where such an individual moves from one side of the table to the other without an appreciable time lapse intervening".
[A] homicide conceived in passion constitutes murder in the first degree only if the jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that there was an appreciable time after the design was conceived and that in this interval there was a further thought, and a turning over in the mindand not a mere persistence of the initial impulse of passion.
