Example sentences of "life span " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old-generation units were patched up even further beyond their expected life span . |
| 2 | Average life span : |
| 3 | UP UNTIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had never toured The The during its 10-year life span : the group was never more than a shifting collection of session players and ‘ guests ’ , songs so devoted to doom and gloom limited audiences to Exit members , the lunacy of the extended format Infected video implied visions far beyond the confines of the stage , and an inflated sense of his own worth would have made the risk of failure too great . |
| 4 | He points out that an animal 's life span is linked to its metabolic rate . |
| 5 | By 1848 Judith Holt , the diarist , had already followed her sister into the grave , at the age of forty-three ; she had failed by only one year to attain the average life span of the gentry and professional class , to which her husband belonged . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not a gambler , I look at ten year careers not ten minute careers and I believe Kylie has all the potential necessary to have a very long life span in this business , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Now , the Italians have transplanted the gene into so-called stem cells which in theory have an unlimited life span . |
| 8 | We will not invest in new nuclear power stations , continue with those in the planning process or extend the lives of existing nuclear stations beyond their safe life span . |
| 9 | Anencephalus , for example , has no life expectancy beyond a few weeks , and even this short life span is rare . |
| 10 | Linda Welsh has previously suggested that the key issue is competence , at a time when the knowledge gained in initial vocational education may have a life span as short as four years . |
| 11 | Red blood cells in adult mammals only have a limited life span — about 120 days in humans — and are continually being produced . |
| 12 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 13 | He preached the importance of youth ( ‘ Everyone over 25 should be shot ’ ) when he was himself about to enter his late twenties ; he said his band was a singles band with a short life span ( ‘ We 'll made four great records and retire ’ ) ; and he said Wedding Present songs and sets would always be very short ( sets now last an hour and songs like ‘ Take Me ’ , for over eight minutes ) . |
| 14 | Excessive siltation will reduce the operational life span of dams and reservoirs and downstream areas are likely to witness an increase in flooding . |
| 15 | It is characteristic of both plant and animal cells ; in the latter totipotency is lost at an early stage in embryonic development but in plants all cells maintain this ability throughout the life span of the individual . |
| 16 | The female moths , it would seem , either have a shorter life span than males , or they are preyed upon while they lay their eggs . |
| 17 | At an ageing research centre in Arkansas , Bob Schmookler Reis and his colleagues have found that cultured skin cells accumulate plasmids as they multiply and reach their natural life span . |
| 18 | Platform games are a popular genre , but the essentially uncomplicated nature of the puzzles included in most tends to shorten their life span . |
| 19 | Life span |
| 20 | Life Span : Given good conditions a goldfish will live for 10–20 years . |
| 21 | Life Span : Given good conditions can live for 10–20 years . |
| 22 | These are threefold : ( 1 ) that the number of cases reported represented one-fifth the true rate , ( 2 ) that an average of two head were stolen in each theft , and ( 3 ) that the hypothetical animal had a life span of ten years . |
| 23 | Life expectancy is so low that the average life span of men just before we got here ( in the last quarter of the seventeenth century ) was 29.6 years . |
| 24 | Some American analyses have indicated that their average life span may be as much as 10 years longer than that of meat eaters and they spend less time in hospital . |
| 25 | Cell yields from 4-day cultures of CD4 + CD8 + TCR - cells and purified epithelium were 20–30% of the input number , reflecting the limited life span of these cells unless rescued by positive selection . |
| 26 | Bets that he 'll take over as president of Novell may not take into account the short life span of any of Novell 's prior heirs apparent . |
| 27 | For example , in mice modified liver cells have been implanted , which have not only corrected the phenylalanine defect but have remained healthy for the normal life span of the animal . |
| 28 | The injected cells remained healthy within the liver parenchyma and corrected the phenylalanine defect for the normal life span of the mouse ( even though the cells made up only a small percentage of liver cells ) . |
| 29 | It is estimated that for every cigarette you smoke you shorten your life span by five minutes . |
| 30 | The United States baby can expect a life span of 70 years , and in the United Kingdom this rises to 71 years . |