Briefly, the NOS allots a maximum of nine points based on the representativeness of the intervention and control groups, ascertainment of intervention, absence of outcomes at study start, comparability of groups based on study design and analysis, blinded assessment/record linkage to confirm outcomes, sufficient length of follow-up and sufficiently low withdrawal rate.
In both cases, the appropriate audience for the testing of claims is universal, and in making a truth or rightness claim one counterfactually presupposes that a universal consensus would result, were the participants able to pursue a sufficiently inclusive and reasonable discourse for a sufficient length of time.
After our concoction had been in the oven for what seemed a sufficient length of time, we took it out, set it on the table, and dug in.
It has to do with the number of days you take to shoot it, and you can't make a film as well as it can be made without having a sufficient length of time to make it.
The most important step in pouring a new sidewalk or any concrete surface is to keep the surface moist for a sufficient length of time -- generally, about a week -- to allow the entire slab to cure evenly.
We should be prepared to enjoy our good luck, and drop dead after a sufficient length of time – but ask, along the way, what we actually wish to do with our time.
"If the water level falls below the base of the tree for a sufficient length of time, and you put water back in the stand, it's not going to take up water," he said.
Situations of this kind usually persist for a sufficient length of time, so that many particles are brought into the inner magnetosphere where they are energized and trapped and produce a magnetic storm.
In order to prevent eating foods contaminated by salmonella, which seems particularly pertinent in light of the recent outbreak, Potter explains that salmonella is killed when it is cooked at 136°F, but only when that temperature is sustained for a sufficient length of time.
Although appropriate continuous, quantitative measurements have not been made for a sufficient length of time, there is some data to suggest that the amount of precipitation over many large cities is about 5 to 10 percent greater than that over nearby rural areas, with the greatest increases occurring downwind of the city centre.
The spores survive if the food is not cooked at 120 °C (248 °F) for a sufficient length of time; this temperature can be achieved with certainty only in commercial canning plants or in a pressure cooker (boiling is not reliable).
