In particular, there is no fixed time limit for it to be extended nationwide.
Committing to someone or a class gives you a fixed time to exercise and you put it on your calendar.
The meeting or congregating together of people for the purchase and sale of provisions or livestock, publicly exposed, at a fixed time and place.
The answer to this mess is to renegotiate the contracts so that spent nuclear fuel already at Sellafield is stored for a fixed time agreed between the parties.
To find the energy hogs, you simply plug each appliance into the meter in turn, and then plug the meter into the wall socket and leave it switched on for a fixed time.
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McKinsey's Jayant Sinha believes the education system can be fixed in time to plug the gap.
Clinging to a rigid model of fixed working time and presence is better suited to the industrial age than the digital age.
But perhaps more germanely, the UK's economic malaise shows no signs of being fixed any time soon by the supposed experts in the Bank of England or Treasury, so there may be a case for looking elsewhere for wisdom - and it is no longer eccentric to argue that what went wrong in the financial system was as much ethical as technical.
Time is fixed and the learning is variable, when what we need is a system that makes time variable so that the learning can be fixed.
In the current model, students have a fixed amount of time to learn new concepts.
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The equilibrium remains delicate, but important parameters appear to have been fixed for the time being.
Any such information would be no more than snapshot at a fixed point in time, he argued.
This may be fixed by the time the phone is in production, but it's potentially an annoying issue.
Another issue is that unlike some clinical trials, the study does not end after a fixed period of time.
Mr Einhorn's proposals for releasing funds to shareholders involve "preferred" stock - which pays a fixed dividend over time.
Again, these concerns may be fixed by the time the Ultra hits shelves, so we'll reserve final judgement for later.
The problems in Table 1 start with the simpler technological issues that can be fixed given enough time and technical progress.
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Group tours can be more convenient and can usually be booked at the last moment they follow a fixed program and time schedule.
Workers would be able to register for legal status for a fixed period of time and then be required to go home.
The most significant part of the program is its open-ended nature rather than a fixed amount or time period for its asset purchases.
The purpose of our patent system is to allow the inventor, for a fixed period of time, to reap the fruits of his labor.
Leased cars, you see, are purchased by the finance company and then leased to individuals for a fixed period of time, usually 24-48 months.
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Is she a fixed point in time that has unfixed itself?
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When a club loans out a player, he joins another team for a fixed period of time, usually anwhere from a few months to a whole season.
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The company collects a fixed fee each time individuals or businesses register a new .com or .net domain name, or renew the registration of an existing domain name.
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Our patent system was originally designed to foster innovation, and allow any person with a new, useful invention to practice the invention exclusively for a fixed period of time.
Unfortunately, they've dinged the keyboard for the same crappy feel observed elsewhere, something we're all hoping gets fixed by the time it hits production in a couple months' time.
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Sensor data is stored on the device for a fixed period of time, and accumulated data can be transferred using a special application and FeliCa technology, a popular smart card system in Japan.
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