The phrase "apply a period" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to place a period at the end of a sentence or to indicate the end of a thought.
Example: "Make sure to apply a period at the end of each complete sentence in your essay."
Alternatives: "insert a period" or "place a period".
An effectiveness of the mostly used acid thermal treatment depends on the nature and concentration of acid applied, a period of interaction between the acid and clinoptilolite (a contact time), and a solid:liquid ratio [7 16].
For PL we applied a period length of 10, 20, 50, 100 and 250 years, respectively, with each period subdivided into a similarly long 'good' and 'poor' phase.
However, organic farmers in Sweden have to apply a withdrawal period extended beyond the statutory withdrawal period.
Bruss (1998, 2003); Egozcue et al. (2013); Egozcue and Fuentes García (2015) and Wu and Zitikis (2017) apply a two-period model to determine optimal commodity (e.g., real estate, computer, etc).
To our knowledge this is the first study to apply an age, period and cohort approach to the study of prevalence of abstinence from alcohol.
The disposal standards were to apply for a period of 10,000 years after the facility is closed.
There is a belief that additional tendon to bone fixation provides superior strength than soft tissue attachment initially, but this may not apply after a period of healing.
These results highlight the importance of applying a minimum period (4 weeks) of transient immunosuppression if the host acceptance of xenogeneic implants based on microencapsulated Epo-secreting cells is aimed.
For the registration of events during follow-up, we applied a "blanking period" of 14 days after index.
Applying a lookback period to identify prior admissions in which diabetes was recorded can increase detection of diabetes status in linked datasets [ 4].
