(n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
(n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
(n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(2) After the emperor's death, they are named after an era chosen for them; thus Hirohito is known exclusively in Japan as Showa Emperor.
(3) The viral titer was 10(1.8) tissue culture infective doses (TCID) higher than that of commercial ERA vaccine.
(4) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(5) We have now entered the era of climate change induced loss and damage.
(6) In an era when citizens expect choice, the council argue, the old model of local government no longer works.” Northants uses the word “right-sourcing” to describe the process of offloading services.
(7) He is seeing clubbers with their hands in the air again: "In the dubstep era everyone just stood there and nodded their heads.
(8) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(9) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
(10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(11) The new era of medical economics emphasizes prospective payment and alternative delivery systems.
(12) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
(13) A “shock to the system” is precisely how his adviser Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly described the new era.
(14) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(15) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
(16) The modern era of leg lengthening has therefore brought two things: new technical versatility to correct complex and coexisting deformities and new concepts of the biology of lengthening that are not device specific and can be applied with most lengthening devices.
(17) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(18) These infections must have been more common in the pre-antibiotic era and perhaps a search of the older literature would have been more fruitful.
(19) In 1994, he appeared as himself in the television special Smashey and Nicey, the End of an Era.
(20) The club’s increase in capacity from 35,000 at the Boleyn Ground to 60,000 at the former Olympic Stadium also makes it the biggest and most successful stadium move in Britain in the modern era.” The club’s vice-chairman, Karren Brady, added: “David Sullivan, David Gold and I have always believed in the West Ham fanbase and knew we could fill the new stadium “Reports consistently show that we have highest average capacity in the Premier League and every game in our final season at the Boleyn Ground sold out within days of going on sale.
Erf
Definition:
(n.) A garden plot, usually about half an acre.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assumption that the distribution of pore sizes is Gaussian has led to the prediction of a linear relationship between the molecular Stokes radius (RS) of the protein and the function erf-1 (1-KD), where KD is the partition coefficient [Ackers (1967) J. Biol.
(2) In the present study, neuronal activities of retinal classes R2 and R3 and tectal classes T5(2) and T7 have been extracellularly recorded in response to leading and trailing edges of a 3 degrees X 30 degrees stripe simulating a worm and traversing the centers of their excitatory receptive fields (ERF) horizontally at a constant angular velocity in variable movement direction (temporo-nasal or naso-temporal).
(3) No significant difference was also shown in RBF between the control and all ERF-rats studied, through significant decreases in the renal clearance of NMN and renal extraction ratio (ER) were observed in the ERF-rats except the gentamicin-treated rats.
(4) The combination of Abc2, Abc1, and Erf also exhibited this activity.
(5) Overall cosmetic results were also better for the TRAM without implant than for the ERF (72% good vs. 51%).
(6) The accessory recombination function (arf) gene of bacteriophage P22 is located immediately upstream of the essential recombination function (erf) gene.
(7) After 1,25(OH)2D therapy a significant increase in serum phosphate, urinary calcium, and a decrease in urinary cAMP is observed only in ERF patients.
(8) However, Erf was inactive, both by itself and in combination with Abc1; Abc2 had weak activity.
(9) The red rod-mediated ERFs seem to be somewhat larger than the cone-mediated but smaller than the green rod-mediated.
(10) Greg Hunt spent his time in Paris continuing to pretend that his emissions reduction fund (ERF) is a carbon price and also an idea being adopted around the word, but the experts, when asked , said reverse auctions like the ERF were useful additions to a carbon price, but not a good primary policy to drive down greenhouse emissions.
(11) However, despite the smallest RFR, SK patients with ERF had the highest percentage increase in their GFR.
(12) Ten upper rectus (ERF) and 42 lower rectus (TRAM) were the two procedures applied.
(13) Nevertheless, the FMLC technique has been found to be a valid and useful technique particularly in the study of serum ERF titers.
(14) All three receptor types contribute to the IRF surrounding the ERF of classes 1, 2, 3 and deviating class 4 cells.
(15) Microsomal benzphetamine N-demethylase (BND) and 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylation (ERF) activities, catalyzed by P-450 isozymes 2 and 6, respectively, and specific P-450 content were determined after incubation with ABT.
(16) A correlation was noted between the magnitude of bronchial secretion viscosity and some characteristics: intensity of asphyxia attacks, dyspnea, number of dry rales; bronchial patency according to the ERF estimates.
(17) The pathophysiological consequence of such a deficiency in patients with ERF may be important.
(18) The nucleotide sequence of a segment of the bacteriophage P22 chromosome to the left (downstream in the PL operon) of the erf gene was determined.
(19) No significant difference was shown between the values of RBF determined by the NMN method and conventional p-aminohippurate (PAH) method in both the intact (control) and glycerol-ERF rats, suggesting the usefulness of the NMN method in determining RBF.
(20) On the basis of literature analysis and clinical experience, a classification of external respiratory failure (ERF) is suggested.