Sentence examples for before attainment from inspiring English sources

Recruitment was slow and, for practical reasons, was halted before attainment of the target number (216 patients).

On current trends it will be decades before this attainment gap is even halved.

"It would take 30 years before the attainment gap in schools between the poorer kids and their better-off classmates even halved.

The advantages of transient methods over steady-state ones, in which behaviour before the attainment of the steady-state is not part of the observation, are manifold.

To this end, the time dependence of the open probability of peptide ion channels during the first few seconds from the instant of the voltage step, before the attainment of its steady-state value expressed by the well-known one-sided Boltzmann equation, is taken into account.

This is due to the fact that as pointed out before the attainment of tangible benefits requires a "critical mass" of actors using interoperable ICT systems is a necessary precondition for reaping the benefits of these technologies and thus, so far, SMEs have failed to fully benefit from better ICT integration and innovation.

In larvae starved before the attainment of critical weight, the trehalose level declined gradually during the first 24h and reached a minimum of 4.5mM at 36h after starvation.

It has been shown that initiation of HAART before the attainment of the natural equilibrium of virus load may blunt the natural anti-HIV immune activity [ 12].

We examined whether exposure to TCDD is associated with adult bone mass and whether this association is modified by exposure before the attainment of peak bone mass.

To ensure that the cancer and its treatment had a chance of influencing educational outcome, only patients whose cancer was diagnosed before possible attainment of a given educational level were included; thus, analysis of basic education was restricted to patients in whom cancer was diagnosed before they were 13 years of age.

A number of studies measured follow-up from treatment initiation, or even earlier than this, rather than the SVR time-point, allowing the accruement of PYFU before SVR-attainment.