"doses" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb to refer to measured amounts of medicine or a substance that one is taking or being given, or as a noun to refer to such an amount. Example: "I need to take two doses of the medicine each day in order to manage my condition."
The lowest rate in 2011 was in Chile, where 12.8 daily doses were prescribed for every 1,000 inhabitants.
Authenticity has a cohort of semantic fellow-travellers – such as "spontaneity", which is engaging enough in small doses, in dogs and children, but tiresome and selfish in any stretch from adults.
When I emerge from several mean weeks of 10ml doses of semi-skimmed in each mug of tea, I'm never actually flat-bellied, and my face appears unhealthily gaunt.
Arizona added its name to the grisly list of death penalty states carrying out botched executions in July when it took almost two hours and 15 doses of drug to kill Joseph Wood.
Gilbert says that stopping them prematurely will not directly increase the risk of resistance – that more commonly happens with prolonged treatment on suboptimal doses.
These all looked at the effect on adults of taking standard doses of paracetamol (0.5g-1g, to a maximum of 4g a day) compared with not taking the medicine.
The solution Peanut allergy can be life-threatening and both studies were carried out under close clinical supervision and with doses different from those available outside a trial.
Even the claims of hunters as environmentalists, as noted above, are treated with heavy doses of scepticism.
The OECD figures show Iceland to have the highest prescribing rate, at 105.8 doses a day for every 1,000 inhabitants in 2011, up from 70.9 in 2000 and 14.9 in 1989, when it first submitted figures.
It also said poorer nations would receive the vaccine for free with 50m doses to be donated to the World Health Organisation.
Clearly, it developed a liking for psychedelic rock, and – as described late on in the book – accompanying doses of a certain "chemical which alter[s] reality".
