Sentence examples for initial advantage is from inspiring English sources
Qualitatively, the pattern is similar for females, though the initial advantage is smaller (0.20 log points) and has vanished (or turned into a small disadvantage) 15 years after arrival.
Thus, mutations of the kind studied here are most likely to become fixed if their initial advantage is strong and this advantage lasts for a sufficiently long time.
Despite Edward's naval triumph off Sluys (1340), which confirmed English control of the seas, his initial advantage was lost as his resources and allies melted away.
This means that its planes, at least during that period, probably were safer than average even if the initial advantage was merely a bit of statistical good fortune, because the value of its ability to claim a perfect record rose the longer it lasted, and so gave the airline continuous incentives to incur greater costs in safety assurance.
Coke's initial advantage was its lower cost, mainly because making coke required much less labor than cutting trees and making charcoal, but using coke also overcame localized shortages of wood, especially in Britain and on the Continent.
Note that this condition is independent of how strong the initial fitness advantage is and for how long the favorable phase lasts.
The first advantage is the simplicity of the initial parameter settings.
"The home advantage is a big advantage.
Addition of the filler particles could raise the initial strength but this advantage was soon lost upon water immersion.
The only advantage was more initial cell spreading during the early culture periods shown by CLSM (Figure 4).
