Sentence examples for time life span from inspiring English sources

Existing legislation will have to be renewed after May's general election because a "sunset clause" (which gives the law a limited time life span) was added to the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act last year, meaning the measures will expire in 2016.

As proposed by Martin and Palumbi [ 9], high rates of nucleotide substitutions observed in mitochondrial genes could be related to some physiological variables such as generation time, life span, age at first reproduction, rate of population increase, and metabolic rate.

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When a cluster of stars is formed at about the same time, the life span of these stars will depend on their individual masses.

Tabebuia aurea is a Neotropical tree species with a long generation time and life span, widely distributed in the seasonal savannas and wet-savanna grasslands of Central Brazil, and for which there is a scarce fossil record.

The negative relationship between dS and body mass is consistent with the conclusions of previous studies which show that the neutral rate of molecular evolution is associated with body mass and life history traits such as generation time and life span [ 49, 50].

Intrinsic population characteristics such as mating system and number of overlapping generations, which is determined by the relationship between generation time and life span, are expected to affect a population's "kinship composition," that is, the distribution of the different relatedness categories in a population (Wang 2004).

GE is producing tubes that have up to five times the life span of the old tubes.

That's about 20 years, four times the life span of a comparable NIMH or lithium ion battery.

The human life-span exceeds that of most mammalian species at least 4 times (median life span records across 900 mammalian species is ~16 years) [ 7].

At the same time, with life spans growing longer, Americans leaving the full-time workforce today may need to fund 30 years of living expenses.