People with ADD are terrible at estimating in advance how long a task will take.
They look, though, a little like warnings as to how long a cup of Starbucks stays good.
Now, nobody knows how long a mobile manager might stay with a company, or where he will retire.
Statistics drive insurance, such as how long a person is likely to live.
This aims to place a value on how long a company takes to cover its costs of acquiring new customers.
You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tabasco.
He said another contractor would have to be found to complete the work and did not know how long a delay that would cause.
In reality, three hours is the upper limit for how long a body can remain in suspended animation and still return to normal function.
The study found an association between how long a parent had been deployed in the last three years and the difficulties that children faced.
It's roughly a five-day trip across country, assuming the driver follows hours-of-service regulations that limit how long a driver can go in a given stretch.
Consider this example: Suppose you're sitting in a meeting with clients, and someone asks you how long a certain digital project is slated to take.
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These decisions are weighted on how long a driver has been using the app and how trustworthy they have been in reporting hazards and traffic.
We track our time carefully, but mostly only to analyze it internally so that we can accurately predict how long a particular task will take.
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My friend believed the myth that he could forecast where the stock market and interest rates were heading and how long a bear market would last.
But it is the intensity of battle, rather than the actions of the authorities, which determines how long a World Cup will last in the memory.
Dividing the costs per unit is a common practice for analysts, since no one knows at the outset how long a car program will last.
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The site even offers estimated reading times, to give you an idea of how long a story might entertain you during your flight, train ride or afternoon by the pool.
She can pinpoint with uncanny precision where a tumor will grow months ahead of time and predict how long a patient is likely to live under various treatment scenarios.
The new rules also say that products claiming water resistance must say how long a user can expect to get that protection while swimming or sweating, either 40 minutes or 80 minutes.
Defense attorney Frank Policelli said Tuesday's decision leaves big questions about how long a search warrant remains valid, a fundamental privacy rights question, and he's considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
For example, one reason new photo app Snapchat has become enormously popular lately, may be because it lets users decide how long a photo will exist (usually a few seconds) before it self-destructs.
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"I thought that was incredibly comforting and uplifting, because it made you feel that it doesn't matter how long a life is, the thing is that you live it beautifully and it's full, " he said.
The grants come with many strings attached, including limitations on how long a qualifying family can receive the welfare assistance along with requirements that a recipient, eventually, get a job as a condition to remaining qualified for help.
Although policies put in place to reduce pilot error are not universal across the world, there are varying guidelines about how long a pilot can captain a flight, how many co-pilots should be present and how many hours a pilot can fly before taking mandatory breaks.
But excited researchers say that apo E is rapidly emerging as the first-found of a set of mysterious genes that roughly determine how long a person will live, provided he or she escapes an "unnatural" death from bacteria and viruses, war, accidents, unhealthy diet, smoking or other environmental happenstance.
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But there is a limit to how long such a crisis footing can be maintained, unless national survival is at stake.
Rules govern how many hamburger patties to a pound of beef (10), how long to toast a bun (17 seconds) and how much sanitizer to use when cleaning the shake machine (1 packet for 2.5 gallons of water).
How long can a senate majority leader hold his political opponents in contempt?
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How long does a conversation have to be before it becomes a "meeting"?
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