Sentence examples for comparable time span from inspiring English sources

In between these 2 periods, the smokers were allowed to smoke 1 cigarette, the nonsmokers were allowed a short break of comparable time span.

Although the average strength of all persisting connections did not change, the mean absolute change was 55±33% (see Table 1), clearly exceeding the spontaneously occurring changes during a comparable time span (28±10%, in 34±14% of all persisting connections).

In contrast, the studies of Pergams et al.[ 16] and Goldstein & DeSalle [ 17] did reveal that such patterns can be altered significantly in a comparable time span.

The relationships, we found, "arose contemporaneously"; this is comparable in time span to the chronology here between the Attorney General's legal consultation with the Personnel Board and his filing of a lawsuit against the same board.

For example, in late 2010, the game Call of Duty: Black Ops earned $650 million in worldwide sales in just five days — a huge yield even by comparison to the top-grossing film in a comparable five-day time span, The Dark Knight, which earned about $200 million.

Serial electrophysiological techniques were used to follow recovery from median nerve lesions (n = 46) in nonhuman primates over 3 to 4 years, a time span comparable with such lesions in humans.

The maceration procedure mimics the tissue breakdown that occurs in vivo during mastication while the PTR-MS is monitoring the development of flavour profile in a time span comparable to the food residence time in the mouth during chewing.

Adaptation to new environments is fully dependent on the ability of the population to respond in a time span comparable to that of the external fluctuations, and evolution apparently selects mutation rates that permit this long-term adaptation [ 23- 25].

Interpreting the remaining four dropouts as unforced and therefore relevant to determine the adherence, their percentage of 17% is also comparable to our unforced dropout rate (over a 20% longer time span, namely 5 years) of 17% (see table 3).

In order to have a time span in the AOK data that is comparable to the 'snapshot' character of the data in the KORA-Age study, we only considered prescriptions that AOK insurants filled during the second quarter of 2006.

The time span tested for memory in our study is comparable to the time ranges known from social mammals (two years in sheep, four years in seals and cotton-top tamarins) [ 2, 4, 7].