sufficient time
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsufficientandtime
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sufficient
adjective
uk/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
enough 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 ofsufficientandtimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsufficient time
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Sufficienttimeelapsed between landings for complete drying on most occasions.
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Longitudinal studies withsufficienttimepoints to assess reciprocal processes continue to be important.
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However, for these benefits to be achieved, care managers needsufficienttime, information and skills.
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Parents were givensufficienttimeto recall and recount their observations.
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However, being realistic, neither researchers nor respondents were likely to havesufficienttimeavailable.
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Therefore, evolutionary processes did not havesufficienttimefor spectacular specialisation.
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Withsufficienttime-depth, diachronic changes can be assessed for directional process.
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Patients in both groups stated that their physician spentsufficienttime.
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This provedsufficienttimefor all female flies to obtain a bloodmeal.
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The effect of faeces as an attractant may diminish givensufficienttime.
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Sufficienttimefor adaptation, 10 min, followed each decrease in illumination.
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These hosts might not have hadsufficienttimeto recover full reproductive capacity.
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But, as machines improve, they will successfully compete with humans and, givensufficienttime, surpass humans.
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We also found that spendingsufficienttimeon the first draft of the guidelines greatly reduces the work of future revisions of both the guidelines and the treebank.
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In other words, errors in planning can still be corrected givensufficienttime; errors in control are much more likely to cause the act to fail.
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After each agent was administered,sufficienttime(at least 30 min) was allowed for the hemodynamic values to return to baseline before the next agent was administered.
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However, all of the farms sampled in this study have been managed organically for at least 4 years,sufficienttimefor soil properties to be affected.
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Another possibility is that an 8-week acute phase treatment is notsufficienttimeto improve negative attributional style.
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Yet even whensufficienttimehas passed and periodic data-gathering proves to be feasible, surveys have rarely provided a methodological basis for unraveling the dynamics of political orientations.
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Now the problem became that of being able to affordsufficienttimefor actors to work together and develop the means of expression so recently rediscovered.
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