The visits have taken place over a period of time that amounts to over three years.

As such, it is longer term. A significant initiative has been the

Each part takes place in a different time period in the past.

Rihanna achieved the feat in a time span of six years and four months, surpassing the record previously held by Madonna who managed the achievement in a time span of six years and nine months.

For some, the symptoms decrease after a span of three to five years.

It was constructed over a longer period of time, and contains different layers of writing.

The right to due process includes the right to judicial proceedings free of delays, the right to be tried within a reasonable period of time and the right to receive a reasoned judgement within a reasonable period of time.

13.9 States should establish a clear time period for filing restitution claims.

It was difficult, however, to follow the ramifications of certain acts over a long period.

The institutions of NEPAD have been created and its programme has been elaborated in a remarkably short period of time.

My time simply has been too limited to talk with 65 members in a very short time frame.

It is an object that represents a previous era or time period in human society.

However, it was indicated that a limited time period was essential to the definition of volume contracts.

Moreover, there were no grounds for concluding that the procedure might exceed a reasonable time.

Climate can change over period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.

The services are to be provided in reasonable quality and within a reasonable time, and at a fair distance from one's place of residence.

And I want to argue that we are living through and are right at the key moment of a change in the way ideas are created and spread and implemented.

In other words, we should focus our efforts on a shorter time frame, say, the next 15 years.

In all these countries there were mechanisms to allow these prisoners to be released after a period of time, which varied considerably.

The talks will be direct, will follow a brief and precise thematic agenda, and will be conducted within a defined time horizon.

For the West, especially the US, every problem should have a solution within a finite period of time.

Four convenience store chains raised their prices for carbonated beverages by an identical amount within a brief period of time.

The Committee may, where necessary, indicate a time limit within which comments from States parties are to be received.

In a short period of time, it has become a true cornerstone of the fight against impunity at the international level.

Within a short amount of time, in some cases just minutes, bacterial polymerase starts translating viral mRNA into protein.

When voting has finished, all envelopes are opened on the counting table, for one election at a time.

Language changes more than we realize in a relatively short span of time, influencing our susceptibility to language changes around us.

Each actor plays a different character in each time period, but each character they play is linked to one another.

According to her account, all of the children died, as did her husband, within a short time of each other.

It has been observed that electronic reverse auctions rarely close after a fixed duration of time has expired (known as a hard close time ).

It was suggested that the words during an agreed period of time in proposed draft article 1 (x) should be deleted.

Consequently, the Court may wish not to overstretch its work schedule in the field at any given time.

Some of these are non renewable resources, such as fossil fuels, that are difficult to replenish on a short time scale.

Well, a reasonable expectation is that somebody's fame in a given period of time should be roughly the average of their fame before and their fame after.

As a result, more information can be transmitted in a given amount of time , World Public Sector Report 2003, op. cit.

The Bureau encouraged UNFPA to schedule a time slot for the event with a view to ensuring that delegates participating in the thirty eighth session would be able to attend.

We agree with the humanitarian objectives of the Ottawa Convention and, in principle, we do not reject the idea of acceding to it within a reasonable time frame.

The second thing we need to do is we need to just look back at how far we have come in such a short period of time.

Investments in infrastructure and human capital are the bedrock for increasing average productivity and for ensuring high growth over a sustained period of time.

For example, article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child indicates that children should be detained only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.

(c) Set specific target dates for the planned development of the computerised system to ensure that it is implemented within a reasonable time frame, bearing in mind the overall availability of resources.

Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, decisions of the Council of Members shall be taken by consensus of the Members within a time limit laid down by the Chairperson.

So there's a critical window of opportunity we have to make an important difference that can affect the lives of literally millions of people, and practice preventive medicine on a global scale.

Indeed, 1989 was a watershed, producing the most profound global geopolitical changes in the most compressed timeframe in history.

For part of her childhood, the family lived in Paris, France, but they returned to England shortly after World War I broke out in 1914.