prolonged time
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprolongedandtime
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prolonged
adjective
uk/prəˈlɒŋd/us/prəˈlɑːŋd/
continuing for a ...
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time
noun
uk/taɪm/us/taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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(Definition ofprolongedandtimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This economic evaluation constitutes a first attempt to estimate the impact of motivation as a predictor of total costs in theprolongedtimeperspective.
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Apparently, during prolonged exposure, the person's fear reaction to the real or imagined phobic object (or idea) becomes "exhausted," just as one cannot cry or scream for aprolongedtime.
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Importantly, 12 oocytes showed balanced predivision proving that this anomaly is not solely due toprolongedtimein culture, as some had claimed.
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Theprolongedtimespan of myelination allows the potential impact of biological and psychosocial environmental influences on this process.
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These authors also suggested that after a larva invades an eye it may cease in its migration and remain there, viable for aprolongedtimeperiod.
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Thisprolongedtimeinterval is consistent with other series of genetic breast cancer patients and suggests the need for lengthy follow-up.
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It should be possible for some designers to develop and maintain an internal designing activity for aprolongedtime.
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There is aprolongedtimeinterval between the ventricular contractions occurring before and after (v-v2) the premature atrial contraction.
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In this experiment seeds were buried for a relativelyprolongedtime, and they probably endured fluctuations of concentrations of oxygen, temperature and soil water potential.
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Nationalisation has taken place in many areas over aprolongedtime.
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I do not believe that any armed forces but ours could have sustained, with such self-discipline and with such propriety, those enormous burdens for such aprolongedtime.
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If it goes on for anyprolongedtimeit must have an effect on properties in the neighbourhood.
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It is hard to believe that a centrifuge was left in that condition for aprolongedtime.
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That is the kind of thing we desire to avoid, and which we have avoided by giving theprolongedtimefor the deposit of nomination papers.
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We are not considering—although it is very easy to takeprolongedtimeon historical researches—how it originally came in.
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Usually, they can not sustain oxygen stress for aprolongedtime.
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Refugees most often come from war-torn situations combined withprolongedtimein refugee camps.
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She held the title for aprolongedtimeperiod, until the division became inactive.
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This approach can be associated with postoperative infection and pain, andprolongedtimeto complete recovery.
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Her brain was so cold when the heart stopped that the brain cells needed very little oxygen, so the brain could survive for quite aprolongedtime.
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