service life

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Meta servers’ annualized failure rate is expected to go from 4.8% to 7.4% as a result of the lengthened service life, according to the memo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

More than 20% of Japan's water pipes have passed their legal service life of 40 years, according to local media.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

City officials have been working for over a year on a renewal project for the iconic landmark, after a 2018 study determined it was at the end of its service life.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024

A tankless heater costs $2,400 on average, but you can expect to get 20 years of usable service life from one.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2023

I never found the office-work so tedious, my fellow-clerks so wearisome, nor the whole round of civil service life so dreadfully “flat, stale, and unprofitable,” as on that miserable day after the party!

From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)