Sentence examples for for a comparable period from inspiring English sources

The driver got out and stared intently at the entrance of a nearby building, waited for a comparable period until a very young lady, rushed up, greeted him, and plumped, with an air of familiarity, into the seat directly behind him.

Considering that on free broadcasts of the race the sponsors could expect a race that lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes to be cut by ads every 15 minutes or so, new free-to-air packages still get the sponsors' logos on the airwaves — for free — for a comparable period of time.

The Rzucewo culture (named after the village near Puck where the discoveries took place) developed from northern populations of the Corded Ware culture as an offshoot specialized in exploitation of the sea resources and lasted in parallel with their mother culture for a comparable period of time.

We did not expect comparable impairments in rats consuming a HF diet at an older age for a comparable period of time or in rats consuming a low fat (LF) diet.

Similarly, although it has been reported that aged (~18 month-old) bad−/− mice are prone to develop diffuse large B cell lymphoma, 10 we observed no malignancies in cohorts of bad−/− or even bim−/− bad−/− animals monitored for a comparable period.

Participants also completed a Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) that queried on frequency and portion size for 125 foods and beverages including beer, red wine, white or rose wine, and liquor and mixed drinks consumed during the 12 months before diagnosis for cases and a comparable period for controls.

Mr. Thompson raised just $71,000 between July 12 and Aug. 10 — a figure that was eclipsed not only by the last two Democratic candidates for mayor over a comparable period, but by three candidates running for other citywide offices this year.

That stands in contrast to 2.6percentt for Germany over a comparable period.

(For reference, over a comparable period, New York City is expected to go from two to 15 100-degree days).

I think it was Marc Ambinder over at The Atlantic who first reported that the text messaging charity campaign organized for the Haiti earthquake raised something like $32 million in a few days, whereas the one for Pakistan raised $10,000 in a comparable period.

The on-time arrival rate was the highest and the cancellation rate the lowest for any comparable period in the 18 years that such flight data has been collected, and the rate of mishandled baggage — lost, damaged, pilfered or delayed — was the lowest since this data was first reported 25 years ago, according to a new Air Travel Consumer Report.