"We would not rule out reexamining Channel 4's funding regime in the medium term if, despite its best efforts, advertising revenues were to drop significantly," MPs said.
But in the medium term if the Fed plan works, it will stop buying and yields will rise to "normal" levels.
But it is imaginable, in the short to medium term, if you factor in the benefits.
As Facebook powers ahead with a superior and more compelling offering, the relatively static LinkedIn may continue to operate, but it faces the real risk of becoming irrelevant in the medium term, if not more quickly.
It says renewable energy subsidies are likely to bring down energy bills in the medium term if gas prices continue to rise as many analysts forecast.
"In the medium term, if there is no self-regulation, people might get fed up with high executive pay," he added.
That may not be quite so easy to achieve in the medium term, if the list of impending legal cases involving him is anything to go by.
However, the nuclear life-time extension has a positive impact on end consumer electricity prices as well as economic growth in the medium term, if retrofit costs do not exceed certain limits.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Mr Hunt said: "I think (the NHS) is sustainable in the medium term if we are prepared to take some difficult decisions about how we deliver healthcare.
In the medium term, if roughly the same dynamics hold and the world's stock of industrial robots quadruples by 2025 — the more aggressive of two projections made by the Boston Consulting Group in 2015 — we could expect unemployment in the United States to increase by about one percentage point.
