Sentence examples for order of hours from inspiring English sources

This is down to it having a very short atmospheric lifetime, of the order of hours to days, because it is rapidly removed as rain and snow.

"Right now, response time is in the order of hours," said Linda Chrisey, a program manager at the Office of Naval Research, which hopes to use the technology to help protect troops from improvised explosive devices.

Given such reaction rates, the characteristic time to equilibrium is rapid, on the order of hours.

Sedimentation time scales were found to be on the order of hours (τ = 4.77 ± 0.02 h).

The timescale for recovery of the trough is of the order of hours (see Fig. 2c).

The atmospheric lifetime of NO x is generally in the order of hours to a day (Seinfeld and Pandis 2006).

They have decay time of the order of hours, low GOES class (∼A or ∼B) and usually no detectable emission above 10 keV.

Patches are depleted in the order of hours-days, so individuals need to visit many patches within a reproductive cycle.

Once cell division occurs, the next cell division can be trialed after 24 hours in our simulations, because cell-cycle times in the confluency are on the order of 24 hours (Dover and Potten, 1983; Dover and Potten, 1988).

In this case, travel time was probably on the order of 15 hours.

For repeatedly sticking a glass in someone's face, a man was fined £200 and given a community service order of 100 hours.