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How to use the word intervals in a Sentence?

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The reason to continue testing – at least at some intervals after the event – in establishing those trends, part of that is really for communication purposes, to really reassure the residents that you know the level and explain to them where the levels after the disaster were as compared to some sort of a baseline.

Ivan Rusyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We haven’t seen evidence that the screenings missed during the pandemic resulted in worsened patient outcomes, though we plan to monitor this trend to see whether it holds over time, the recommended intervals between screenings for a given cancer can be several years, so evidence of advanced cancers can take a long time to appear.

Chris Alban

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s good evidence that screening colonoscopy in asymptomatic individuals at 10-year intervals is effective and cost effective. And I think I’m not ready to change. I would not be ready to change practice in terms of extending the interval based on the study, but it is comforting and provides additional data to strengthen the concept of adhering to these guidelines, the overall message from this study is we can feel comfortable with the current guidelines.

Robert Bresalier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They come in, in half-hour intervals.

Patrick Vanier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For the first time, we were able link together time, fossil plants, fossil animals and temperature in one of the most critical intervals of Earth's history.

Tyler Lyson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Anecdotally, this is one of the main things I work on with families, and they tell me they feel their child is calmer and better-behaved. There is something to be said for nourishing the brain and body on predictable, consistent intervals of three to four hours.

Jill Castle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The firing continued in intervals throughout the night. It was moderate. Even now it's continuing.

Shaukat Yusufzai

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.

Simone Weil

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Sitting in an airplane seat is hard on your body. If you're not moving and stretching at regular intervals in-flight, you're putting yourself at risk. Opt to remain in your seat for hours at a time and you'll likely arrive with the aches and pains of tight muscles.

Christine Sarkis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I ’m a better runner now than I ever was before, i ’m faster. I’ve got Ironman Bruce Thomas. I do long sessions and sprint sessions and intervals. Before, I ’d just go slug it out for three hours. Having that external feedback is really underrated.

Pounds Pitt

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The reason why the site is so important is that these footprints were made in a lagoon. We know from the geology this was a lagoon, sauropods were making their foot prints while they were wading in the water … We have three different layers so that is three different time intervals. This is telling us these huge dinosaurs lived or at least moved through these lagoons fairly regularly over time. This was a normal part of their repertoire.

Steve Brusatte

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In some ways dance and photography are antithetical. Because (dance) happens in 360 degrees of space, according to musical intervals, a choreographed dance has to be performed in sequence; it's not just isolated movements. But I'm extracting one split second, which nonetheless kind of represents a sequence or is like a split-second dance.

Lois Greenfield

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Philae is obviously still functional, because it sends us data, even if it does so at irregular intervals and at surprising times.

Stephan Ulamec

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As a warm-up, it's a great way to loosen up the body, break a quick sweat, our trainers use it in circuit training as a cardio burst between strength training intervals.

Hayley Zawadzki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As a warm-up, it’s a great way to loosen up the body, break a quick sweat, our trainers use it in circuit training as a cardio burst between strength training intervals.

Hayley Zawadzki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Thomas Browne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity

Edgar Allan Poe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Samuel Johnson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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