interval
Example Sentences
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He would be in Los Angeles for a few intervals throughout the year, working as an orchestrator on a blockbuster franchise film.
From Los Angeles Times
From that information, they estimated historical fire return intervals, which were then reconstructed through the Landfire program.
From Science Daily
Orangutans have the longest inter-birth interval of all nonhuman primates; a single infant is born and cared for by its mother for seven to eight years before another infant is born.
From Los Angeles Times
Together, the data point to a temperature increase of about 0.5 degrees Celsius during this interval, along with a 10 to 20 percent reduction in annual rainfall.
From Science Daily
At regular intervals divers found large granite standing stones – or monoliths – protruding above the wall in two parallel lines.
From BBC
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