Sentence examples for specific lengths of time from inspiring English sources

Its aim is to allow people's reputations and life chances not to be forever burdened by a crime committed years earlier, and sets out specific lengths of time after which a criminal conviction is "spent", and people can be considered rehabilitated.

A memo sent to corrections staff this month described an ambitious agenda for the coming months, including allowing death row prisoners out of their cells for four hours a day and sending inmates to solitary confinement for specific lengths of time instead of indefinite periods.

In conclusion, different groups of PFC neurons in area 9 had enhancement in neuronal discharge just after the duration-presentation period or during the interval-reproduction period, with tuning to specific lengths of time.

One of the more intriguing details in yesterday's filing was the statement that Mr. Pittman's employment agreement does not oblige him to remain with the company for any specific length of time.

It was unclear last night whether Mr. Bloomberg asked Mr. Levy to stay for a specific length of time, or whether he simply requested that Mr. Levy run the schools for however long it takes to decide whom he wants in the job.

An idea imported from America, workfare forces anyone unemployed for a specific length of time to accept a job subsidised by the state, or lose benefits.

A student who must interrupt study temporarily to fulfill a compulsory military obligation for a specific length of time may take a military leave of absence to fulfill that obligation.

Not only are certain conditions required to break diapause but in some species (e.g., certain cutworms) a specific length of time must elapse before the stimuli are effective.

Compounds containing chlorine and/or fluorine (CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs, PFCs) include a huge number of different chemical species, each of which can last in the atmosphere for a specific length of time – from less than a year to many thousands of years.

2, are we complying with our own policy?" Kristin M. Nimsger, an electronic- evidence specialist at Kroll Ontrack Inc., which helps find and recover electronic evidence, said a company's policies should and usually do require that documents be kept for a specific length of time in accordance with differing state laws.

In her letter, Leutner did not ask the judge to sentence Weier to a specific length of time in the hospital, but she said her daughter wouldn't feel safe if either of her attackers were released back into the community unsupervised.