Sentence examples for the protracted time from inspiring English sources

The protracted "time to build" means that if property prices shoot up, only the builders who started work years ago benefit.

The frequency of cytokine-secreting T cells directly ex vivo in both WT and TLR2−/− mice was low, but expected, given the protracted time interval (16 weeks) between the last exposure to antigen in vivo and analysis ex vivo.

These findings may have been related to the protracted time between onset of his symptoms and initiation of appropriate therapy.

Most informants described how the protracted time period had offered leaders the opportunity to reflect on their experiences of facilitating change with the first cohorts of units and to use the reflections to improve implementation with the later cohorts.

Here, only half of the newly produced β-catenin will be of the mutant form, so we hypothesised that saturation would take longer, especially given the protracted time taken to generate the CPC phenotype.

By this the uterine glands may play an important role as selection mechanism for a viable sperm population, which is provided in the glandular region of the utero-tubal junction throughout the protracted time of post-ovulatory oocyte maturation and fertilization [ 8, 9].

Only a handful of city governments of the developed and developing world have control over their metropolitan area, reflecting different institutional arrangements and the protracted time-lag required to align urban growth "on the ground" with political boundaries.

The TIPS method eliminates the need and protracted time for titering virus supernatants, and provides stable, concentrated storage of recombinant baculovirus in the form of infected cells.

Citing work on the Mueller-Lyer illusion, Fodor (1983) argues that modularity is consistent with the possibility that cultural settings can, over protracted time periods, alter how information is processed.

The biological basis of this link is likely to be multi-factorial including both age-associated decline in anti-oncogenic functions, such as repair of oxidative damage to DNA, timing of etiologic exposures and/or protracted time required for accumulation of a full set of oncogenic mutations [ 1, 2].

Ever since my sister's death, I've been convinced that any protracted time spent with a health-care professional is a prelude to terminal illness.