Sentence examples for possible duration from inspiring English sources

And that is where the contrarians rush in, proposing that reality is not continuous but discrete, with a smallest possible length and a smallest possible duration of time.

Al-Hussein, previously Jordan's ambassador to the US, will say the detention of asylum seekers and other migrants should "only be applied as a last resort, in exceptional circumstances, for the shortest possible duration and according to procedural safeguards".

Alan Rooks, Blaby, Leicester Time itself being quantised the smallest possible duration in terms of being able to detect something happening before or after something else is the Planck time, 10 to the power of 43 seconds give or take a (very small) bit.

Courts of law, in determining the legitimacy of a child, may accept much shorter or much longer periods of gestation as being within the periods of possible duration of a pregnancy.

When the New York Independent celebrated John Brown, a man many claimed was partly responsible for this unnecessary fratricide, it crystallized Northern fears about the purpose, course and possible duration of the war.

To achieve high production and profit, the system should remain operative for a maximum possible duration.

In other words, when one sympathizes with oneself, one installs oneself within duration and then feels a "certain well defined tension, whose very determinateness seems like a choice between an infinity of possible durations" (The Creative Mind, p. 185).

Variables in the LandTrendr output are reported in a continuous format but here we binned the outputs into 3 magnitude classes for fire and harvest (see Table 1), and 2 magnitude classes (see Table 1), each with 3 possible durations (9, 17, 25 years), for slow disturbances.

The direction of the outgoing saccades (left or right) was randomly determined from trial to trial, and the SOA between eye movements was randomly sampled from the following possible durations: 900, 1100, 1300, 1500 and 1700 ms. A 3T Siemens Allegra head scanner with standard head coil was used to acquire all functional and structural images.

The mean time until extinction approximately doubles to almost 200 days, and the range of possible outcomes increases with maximum possible durations of >2 years.

As the initial study of the intervention had only demonstrated its effects over one month, cost per QALY was evaluated for each deployment scenario over four possible durations of effectiveness, three, six, nine, and twelve months.