(1) There's even a little used term for it – rasputitsa – a biannual phenomenon that appears in spring because of melting snow and in the autumn because of rain.
(2) Weight, length, and head circumference were measured biannually for the first 3 years of life and thereafter annually.
(3) Anthropometry, blood pressure, and maturation staging are measured annually, and blood lipids biannually.
(4) The Commons foreign affairs committee says the government should have made Sri Lanka's bid to host the biannual summit of the Commonwealth – to be held in Colombo next month – conditional on improvements in human rights.
(5) Annual or biannual examinations should commence at age 40.
(6) In its biannual assessment of financial risks, the Bank said it was “focused on the potential for adjustments in the commercial real estate market to be amplified and affect economic activity by reducing the ability of companies that use commercial real estate as collateral to access finance.
(7) Collectively, the data support the hypothesis that photoinduced LH release and the biannual transitions between photosensitivity and photorefractoriness are controlled by an extraocular mechanism(s).
(8) Fifty-six patients with mania and psychotic features and 14 with schizoaffective disorder, manic type, were followed up with biannual assessments during a 5-year period.
(9) It was observed an epidemic bout pattern of biannual frequency, occurring in autumn and winter months, highest incidence observed in October.
(10) The relative risks of HMO patients receiving preventive care within established guidelines were 1.19 (CI, 0.93 to 1.51) for colon cancer screening, 1.78 (CI, 1.11 to 2.84) for annual breast examinations, 1.75 (CI, 1.08 to 2.84) for biannual mammography, and 1.35 (CI, 1.13 to 1.60) for Papanicolaou smears every 3 years.
(11) Biannual cross sectional surveys with mailed questionnaires from 1981 onwards and analysis of national statistics.
(12) Her concerns are supported by the royal college's new medical workforce census, a major biannual study among the UK's 11,000 paediatricians to investigate the pressures on them.
(13) Speaking at the biannual Global Alliance Conference Against Child Sexual Abuse Online in Washington, Holder warned that encryption and other privacy technologies are being used by sexual predators to create “more opportunities to entice trusting minors to share explicit images of themselves.” “Recent technological advances have the potential to greatly embolden online criminals, providing new methods for abusers to avoid detection,” he said.
(14) A retrospective review of 3,490 adminissions to the major pediatric facility in El Salvador was undertaken to determine whether biannual administration of massive doses of vitamin A (200,000 international units) to all availabel 1- to 4-year-old children was effective in preventing keratomalacia.
(15) According to his evaluation of the MOU , we do not know: • what the final version of this MOU says; • whether it changed after minimization rules strengthened later in 2009; • what those "additional procedures" to minimize American citizen information are; • how much, if any, American information actually gets passed along; • what the periodic, annual reviews have said; • what the two biannual program reviews have said; • if the program is even ongoing; or • what the actual implementation of this program looks like.
(16) WR cells maintained without biannual exposure to chlorambucil (WRr) reverted to the sensitive phenotype and possessed GST levels equivalent to WS.
(17) She had been routinely checked on her kidney function biannually and everything had been normal till then.
(18) Copies of the evaluations are given to each resident, and a copy is used at the resident's biannual evaluation meeting with the program director.
(19) The expected reduction in positive node cases from a similar annual program is about 30%, and from a biannual program, even without mammography, about 20%.
(20) Specifically recommended is routine chlamydial screening in the population of reproductive age at the time of the annual or biannual gynecologic examination.
Semiannually
Definition:
(adv.) Every half year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Metallic implants were placed in the jaws of the monkeys as markers, and head films were taken semiannually from 2 to 5 years of age.
(2) In the Boston, Buffalo, Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, areas cocaine-related ER episodes decreased for at least the last two consecutive semiannual periods.
(3) At 1 year after initiation of treatment with semiannual doses of the microfilaricide ivermectin, there were significant increases (P less than 0.05) in the percentage of CD4+CD45RA- cells, the percentage of CD4+HLA-DR+ cells, and mitogen-induced lymphokine production (IL-2, IL-4).
(4) This report summarizes 1524 analyses of juvenile fish collected semiannually in 144 estuaries nationwide from July 1972 through June 1976.
(5) Data from a university hospital for 1986-87 are used to illustrate the spreadsheet's tabular and graphic output; version A is used to predict the number of outpatient prescriptions for the next month, and data for the hospital's semiannual expenditures on i.v.
(6) Based on information and recommendations reported in the literature, as well as from our own experience, we set up a program of routine checks to correct and adjust the machinery conditions and to ensure the optimum operational status of the equipment on a weekly, monthly, semiannual and annual basis.
(7) Despite significant changes in mean density of the parasites in the first 4 years, the degree of aggregation of S. haematobium among the cohort did not change markedly in analysis of egg count data obtained semiannually.
(8) As part of a broader study of menstrual and ovulatory patterns at puberty, estrone and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide levels were analyzed in urine samples collected from 51 girls in the perimenarche for 9 weeks semiannually over a 2-year period.
(9) Nearly 5,000 homosexual men volunteered for semiannual interview, physical examination, and laboratory testing in four metropolitan areas.
(10) To screen for thyroid disease, thyroid function should be assessed before initiating therapy, semiannually during therapy or whenever clinical features of thyroid dysfunction occur.
(11) Calculations indicate that a semiannual clinical-mammographic program can be expected to result in about 37% fewer positive node cases than those observed in the National Breast Project and substantially small tumors.
(12) Infection was determined using an antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method designed for use with large numbers of sera collected semiannually.
(13) The average probability of having 2 consecutive semiannual screening examinations was 57 per cent.
(14) We estimated duration of HIV-1 infection from semiannual serologic testing during the 3-year period before CSF analysis and detected ITS of anti-HIV-1 immunoglobulin in 2 of 12 (17%) of those with less than 18 months of HIV-1 seropositivity, in 3 of 21 (14%) with 19 to 36 months, and in 13 of 29 (45%) with greater than 36 months of HIV-1 seropositivity (p = 0.037).
(15) Each sample consisted of lateral cephalometric radiographs taken annually (control group) or semiannually (treated group) from early childhood through adolescence.
(16) For each of six semiannual evaluations, proportions and numbers of CD3+CD4-CD8- lymphocytes (calculated as CD3- (CD4 + CD8] were both significantly greater in the SP group than in the SN group (P less than 0.001).
(17) The long-term effects varied; some patients required annual or semiannual lavages, wherease others remained in remission after lavage for 36 to 96 months.
(18) The caries-preventive effect of semiannual applications of a fluoride varnish (Duraphat) was tested for 2 years in 225 3-year-old children; 113 children served as a control group.
(19) A randomized prospective study of lung cancer detection was begun in 1976 to evaluate semiannual screening by radiologic and sputum cytologic study in comparison to screening at a 3-year interval, and to no screening.
(20) The patients underwent standardized evaluations at base line and semiannually thereafter and received on-site primary medical care.