Sentence examples for may span several from inspiring English sources

The non-reproductive individuals - other adults, a bunch of juveniles that may span several generations and a rabble of pups - must wait for the opportunity to breed.

Heat waves may span several days to several weeks and are significant causes of weather-related mortality, affecting developed and developing countries alike.

A student's composition work may span several pages.

Darwin's notes on a given topic or in preparation for a given published work may span several DAR numbers, and in general, the only way to discover the contents of a collection of manuscript material with a given DAR number is to browse the collection.

One mapped read may span several splice junctions and increment several counters.

In model organism studies, however, pervasive LD patterns result in GWAS-associated loci that may span several megabases and contain thousands of variants and dozens of genes.

On the other hand, if the purpose is to transmit power over a long distance then the two converter stations are linked by a DC transmission line or a submarine DC cable depending on the geography separating the two converter stations, which may currently span several thousands of kilometers.

However, replication slippage events involving the imperfect motif repeat may also span several motif repeats in which case the motif of the primary and the secondary microsatellite will have a stepwise length difference (e.g.: AC-AGAC, AC-AGACAC, A-AAAG).

Fourth, long-term toxicities of ARV drugs, such as mitochondrial toxicity and metabolic abnormality, are of significant relevance for paediatric cases, as length of treatment may be expected to span several decades.

For example, a toxicology study may use doses that span several orders of magnitude (e.g. 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100 mg/kg), but it is not predicted that the response will have such a wide range (e.g. the proportion of animals surviving is bounded by zero and one), and therefore it is unlikely that the relationship between the two will be linear.

Such inward-looking buildings, which often span several city blocks, may be "contextual" to the new cities of China in some architects' eyes, but how such ambitions translate to London remains questionable, where news of 230 new towers planned across the city has renewed scrutiny of the skyline.