Sentence examples for maintain a period from inspiring English sources

These intervals of 10 14 months, pre-1997, and 20 28 months, post-1997, were chosen to maintain a period clinically similar to the 1- and 2-year screening intervals of primary interest, and to ensure a similar proportion of women returned for re-screening (approximately 50% for each of the time periods studied).

Additionally, heifers consuming lower N intake maintained a period of glucose concentration below baseline before returning to baseline.

These level sets provide conditions for the network to maintain a specific period but have different phase relations, or vice versa, through varying the combination of synaptic preferred periods.

Executives maintain a "quiet period" for months.

In areas in which alternating wet and dry seasons occur, reptiles maintain a longer period of dormancy during the dry season.

A crucial feature is the ability to maintain a constant period over a wide range of internal and external fluctuations.

Alternatively the oscillator may be self regulating and so able to maintain a normal period even when its stability is disrupted.

Phytochrome-deficient mutants maintain a short period even under Fe deficiency, stressing the role of early light signalling in coupling the clock to Fe responses.

Herein we report the 107 genes identified by the screen whose activities were required to establish or maintain an extended period of cell-cycle quiescence during vulva development.

Despite this, Henry VII managed to maintain a comparatively long period of peace and a small but powerful core of a navy.

The street, the group said, has "managed to maintain a strong identity through periods of tremendous population growth and infrastructural strain, disinvestment and urban renewal".