Sentence examples for is rather prolonged from inspiring English sources

In spite of this seemingly efficacious mechanism, the duration of the first stage of labour is rather prolonged, especially in women who are in labour for the first time.

In the early developmental stages, contraction in both muscles is rather prolonged, with a high fatigue index.

Nevertheless, the addition of SPECT/CT to WB-BS is rather time-consuming and may prolong the examination time by 15 20 min for each bed position needed [4, 7].

However, experiments of Elofsson [ 26] with natural and artificial ovarian fluids suggest that it is rather the ionic than the osmotic effect that prolongs motility in stickleback sperm.

The upper jaws are greatly prolonged in the swordfishes and billfishes; the significance of this feature is rather uncertain.

Furthermore, it was shown that ranolazine does not shorten but rather prolongs action potential duration in dog atrial myocytes [ 59].

If, on the other hand, the duration is too short to egest the strip completely, the duration is not prolonged, but rather the entire egestive reflex is repeated anew (right half of Figure 6).

It is important to note that ranolazine also has inhibitory effects on IKr which would rather prolong cardiac APD [ 20, 21].

Many had come to the conclusion by the late '70s that what they had been doing had prolonged, rather than shortened, the conflict.

Therefore, the network lifetime is further prolonged.

Today we are in a recession the depth and duration of which are unknown; Friday's job loss figures were just the latest suggestion that it could well be prolonged and profound rather than shorter and shallower.