This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to identify the duration of time encompassed by a certain event or process. For example, "We need to determine the span of time in order to adequately plan for the project."
1894 Appointed by the late President Cleveland as a member of a board of five engineers to determine the span of the Hudson River Bridge.
The principal components determine the span of the time-frequency space.
A 95% confidence interval was used to determine the span of QTLs using 1-LOD and 2-LOD to determine left and right margins.
To investigate the dynamic range of Actichip and to determine the span of this dynamic range, we used seven Arabidopsis thaliana polyadenylated RNA species referred to as spike RNAs that were in vitro synthesised from plasmids provided by the Institute for Genomic Research [ 30].
While such findings cast doubt on oxidative stress theories of aging and life-history tradeoffs, most researchers still agree that oxidative stress probably underlies some aspects of aging and may help to determine the span of healthy aging even if it fails to determine maximal lifespan and related tradeoffs.
Ebbinghaus (1884), by measuring memory strength in terms of savings in relearning, and Cattell (1885), by determining the span of apprehension to be approximately 7 items, shifted the emphasis in psychology from introspection, or even self-report, to behavioral performance.
However, how much of an oxidant is used determines the span of the oxidant-mediated Ras GDP dissociation, which is expected to vary.
It is reasonable to expect that the degree of ventricular dilatation in hydrocephalus will determine the span and severity of white matter injury and ultimately, functional deficits.
Additional testing would therefore be required to determine definitively the span of delay periods within the same test for which adolescent defeat causes impaired spatial working memory performance.
A more recent study used conditional gene targeting to ablate B lymphopoiesis in the BM in order to determine the life span of B cells in the absence of B cell influx from the BM.
