In those days we did not have fixed term parliaments, the Prime Minister called an election after three and a half years or four years if they wanted, so it was very difficult to say what a full term was.
Those adopting the new Un-Carrier plans still count as postpaid customers, even though they don't have fixed term contracts.
There were no provisions, for example, requiring that the schools chancellor have an education degree, and members of the Panel for Educational Policy, the school oversight board, were not given fixed terms, as Mr. Bloomberg's harshest critics had sought.
Mike Murray, head of airframe integration at BAE Systems, said: "You are suddenly not fixed in terms of where you have to manufacture these things.
That could be a problem if it is not fixed in terms of pleasing advertisers.
First, the identity of a sys-net – where it begins or ends – is not fixed in absolute terms: it changes with changing perspective.
One discouraging aspect of the plan is what it will not fix: long-term-care provision for chronic conditions such as Alzheimer's.
The Orleans Parish Levee Board, which oversaw the city's elaborate system of flood control, was a particularly rich trove of patronage, but its directors served fixed terms and could not be removed by the governor.
Elections for both chambers are normally held every three years, simultaneously; senators have overlapping six-year terms except for those from the territories, whose terms are not fixed but are tied to the electoral cycle for the lower house; thus only 40 of the 76 places in the Senate are put to each election unless the cycle is interrupted by a double dissolution.
The term underdog is not fixed for companies rising from the bottom.
In an open pan-genome, the total number of genes is not fixed, and in a very long term perspective this is most likely the case, assuming new genes form and old genes disappear.
