Sentences with 'duration'
Example sentences and phrases with the word duration and other words derived from it.
• « All patients will receive the usual medical care and will continue to be examined by the centre's physician for the duration of the study. There will also be medical check-ups at the end of the experiment and after one, three, six and twelve months. »
• « The duration of these stable periods of his illness is unpredictable, and it is believed that if his condition takes a downward turn again, the man will not survive. However, people have been writing him off as dead for more than 25 years, and so far they have been wrong. »
• « A chemical antibiotic is just that: a substance that acts as a "poison" to the invading agent, but produces secondary disorders of greater or lesser severity, depending on the duration of treatment and the drug used. »
• « Psychologist Wilse Webb sees the alarm clock as evidence that people get less sleep than they need. "Those who use it to wake up in the morning," he says, "shorten the natural duration of sleep. »