Sentence examples for instead of consecutive from inspiring English sources

Hence, authors should have calculated the sample size based on the published literature or hypothesis and, instead of consecutive clients, systematic random sampling (e.g., every fifth VCT client) should have been adopted.

As the objective of this validation study was to investigate the measurement properties of ALDS in patients with different stages of PAD, we deliberately selected patients for inclusion, instead of consecutive enrolment, to guarantee that the whole spectrum of PAD was represented in our sample.

Three regimes of the precipitation process, i.e. nucleation, growth and coarsening are treated to be "concomitant" instead of being "consecutive".

In order to reduce costs, the devices were exposed for 12 months instead of two consecutive 6-month periods (as with the former national survey).

The two dividing signs | | divide a rune into two Latin letters, because runemasters often carved a single rune instead of two consecutive ones.

At the last cross-sectional bleed (i.e. week 69), the children were seen only once and a single 5 ml venous blood sample was collected instead of two consecutive finger prick samples.

Thus, instead of two consecutive WGDs our data would support a triplication that happened after separation of Theobroma from Gossypium.

The branched unimers have 4 aspartic acids on each branch with a total of eight instead of eight consecutive aspartic acids on the linear unimers (Scheme 2).

Instead of randomizing consecutive patients within a single unit, patients were randomized to either one of two ICU units and SDD was applied to all patients in the so-called SDD ward [ 2].

Instead, a spectrum of consecutive aberrations probably leads to the formation of the concomitant loss.

Under the new EPH, each individual is surveyed also four times, but now instead of these being consecutive with an equal lapse of between surveys, each person is included into the sample during two consecutive quarters, then is dropped the next two quarters, and finally included again for two additional quarters.