Sentence examples for appreciable period from inspiring English sources

"People are going to stay for a little while because of the crisis, but not for an appreciable period of time beyond that," said John Driscoll, president of the Captains Endowment Association, the union representing police captains.

The purpose of this mission, according to a NASA press release issued on 28 January 1961, was to provide "a check of the craft's environmental control and recovery systems" and "a first test of the functioning of the life support system during an appreciable period – nearly five minutes – of zero gravity".

"They can survive, they can even thrive, but it won't be a situation where they'll have a technology edge on Intel for any appreciable period of time".

Of course, the time required for the experimenter to perceive offset of the visual target and the time for the experimenter to produce the verbal imperative in combination with the time required for DB to plan and initiate his response would have introduced an appreciable period of visual delay (>1000 ms).

Indeed, before obtaining their TEM, Grassian et al. (2007) suspended the TiO2 nanoparticles in methanol and sonicated the suspension for an unspecified, but presumably appreciable "period of time".

The mice in all groups that showed high levels of parasitaemia survived for at least 34 days showing that they resisted the parasites for appreciable period of time.

In the presence of other ions or under in vivo conditions, ACP may persist for appreciable periods due to kinetic stabilization [12].

Thus, ACPs may persist for appreciable periods and retain the amporphous state under some specific experimental conditions (Termine et al. 1970).

This review, based on recent data from both animal models and patients with different types of brain injury, proposes that epileptogenesis and often subclinical epilepsy can start immediately after brain injury without any appreciable latent period.

Many of these varieties became great successes and were grown on larger areas over appreciable time periods, providing huge benefits to farmers and consumers.

The occurrence of a storm following a period of appreciable antecedent rainfall is found to increase simulated sediment fluxes.