How to Use timescale in a Sentence

timescale

noun

• What is the timescale for completion of the work?
• When considered on the 4.6 billion year timescale of the Earth, our lives can seem insignificant.
• And if the timescale is wrong, those plate speeds were wrong.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
• But most of those things don’t vary over short timescales.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 July 2019
• Yes, but the timescale was a lot longer compared to the virgins.
  — National Geographic, 9 May 2018
• The team compared their new timescale with site records from caves, ice cores and peat bogs around the world.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
• And at some point over the timescale, somebody's going to make a mistake.
  — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The researchers did the same thing on shorter timescales, looking to see what came first.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2019
• But a report from The Times has now revealed the urgent timescale behind the deals.
  — SI.com, 25 May 2018
• On a long enough timescale, the survival rate of humans is zero.
  — OregonLive.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Assuming that the video has a linear timescale, how long ago would that be?
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2020
• Then the light from these events would fade over the course of a few months to years — thus matching the timescale behind changing-look quasars.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2018
• But this happens on timescales of millions of years, not centuries or days, and at the end, not the middle, of a star's life.
  — Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• These few months of lockdown have been but a blip in the atmospheric timescale of CO2.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
• Most of all, trees seem to grow on a timescale humans can comprehend.
  — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• But that trend is taking place over longer timescales, across the entire planet.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
• Masers are a part of the timescale to determine the national standard.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Trans Actual says patients still don't have a timescale for when this will restart.
  — Jamie Wareham, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Surface features on the Sun come and go every day or so, says Jackiewicz; this is a strange timescale.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 2 July 2022
• But some of the most common climate proxies at this timescale are even more miniscule.
  — Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
• The timescale fits in with the appearance of elephant skin products online.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
• This is the first time it’s been proven on such a short timescale, and Knutti says part of the innovation of the study is the methodology.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2020
• The disks bend and warp in a complex way that current modeling can't handle on all timescales.
  — Sarah Lewin, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• However, when there are breaks in the rain, the timescale gets expedited.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• Given that latter popped up near the end of Q3 last year, thegeekerati have been looking for a similar timescale.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• The timescales are very condensed, but much of the approach to development is unchanged.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2018
• What is possible for a high income country like the UK might not be possible for Egypt, at least not in the same timescale.
  — Sverre Alvik, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• The former Chelsea star had been hoping for a January comeback, but reports claim the timescale may be longer than that.
  — SI.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• In the case of the cosmos the timescale is well beyond our very short lifetimes or even beyond our comprehension.
  — Shannon Stirone, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2020
• In a country that can afford and produce vaccines in such a scale and timescale, perhaps there is good reason to feel some guilt.
  — Elizabeth Lanphier, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024