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 timescale is so different for us than for the fans.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 25 June 2024
• 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
• Whether or not such a reduction could restart the AMOC and over what kind of timescale is an open question.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• 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
• On cosmic timescales, Vega is a young star at around 455 million years old—about one-tenth the age of our own sun.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• 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
• But as the rotation speed is not constant, the two timescales slowly diverge.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• This split likely occurred sometime within the last 10 to 20 million years, which is fairly recent in evolutionary timescales, per CNN.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• The Sun is getting brighter over very long geological timescales, about one percent brighter every 100 million years, says Schwieterman.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024