(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.
Ern
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Erne
(v. i.) To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The synthetic ester cyclopentylpropionate, like E2, produced a rapid ERn response and a significantly shorter uterotropic response than the stearate ester.
(2) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
(3) Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession only because the 3rd Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became 4th Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald’s father, Robert Grosvenor, who farmed in Northern Ireland and lived on an island in Lough Erne.
(4) The oligomeric ERc eluted as a single, sharp peak near the exclusion volume of the gel column; ERn eluted as a broad peak.
(5) Reductions in total ER (ERn + ERc) were sufficient to account for all reductions and altered dynamics of ERn, except for the delayed attainment of peak ERn in UT.
(6) The correlation coefficients for ERc, ERn and ERc+n were 0.960, 0.980 and 0.950, respectively.
(7) We must work together to keep this hope alive, as we agreed to at the Group of 8 meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June, and steer the discussion back toward negotiations.
(8) This unoccupied nuclear ER (ERn) whose hormone binding ability was extremely thermostable could be extracted with 0.4 M KCl.
(9) "One of highlights, says Starks, was launching the institute's open data certificate at June's G8 meeting in Lough Erne, where the themes were tax, transparency and trade.
(10) We measured the uterotropic response and the formation of uterine nuclear estrogen receptors (ERn) produced by iv administration of a representative ester, E2-17-stearate, in comparison to E2, other natural C-17 conjugates of E2, E2-17-glucuronide, and E2-17-sulfate, and the pharmacological ester E2-17-cyclopentylpropionate.
(11) [Erne, D., Sargent, D. F., & Schwyzer, R. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 4261-4263].
(12) In the tumours of postmenopausal women an inverse significant correlation was demonstrated between the concentrations of EGFR vs. ERc, ERn, and PRc while no such correlation was noted in the tumours of premenopausal women.
(13) 2,3,7,8-TCDD causes a dose-dependent decrease in uterine ERc, ERn, PRc, and PRn levels which persist up to 7 days.
(14) Using a hydroxylapatite exchange method for ER, little or no nuclear ER (ERN) could be detected, but with the EIA both cytosolic (ERC) and ERN were detected in almost all specimens, although in meager concentrations.
(15) Nuclear estrogen receptors (ERn) can now be reliably analyzed using the monoclonal estrogen receptor enzyme immunoassay.
(16) In these studies we also examined the changes which occur in estrogen nuclear (ERn) and progestin cytosol (PRc) receptor concentrations in the preoptic area (POA), medial basal hypothalamus (MBH), corticomedial amygdala (CMA) and pituitary gland (PIT) associated with these physiological responses.
(17) In the control pituitary nuclei, 70% of ERn were in the salt-soluble fraction, of which the great majority were occupied by endogenous steroid.
(18) Both the heat-transformed cytosolic estrogen receptor, ERC*, and a major fraction of the estrogen receptor extracted from nuclei, ERN, contained two sites for H165, but only one for H222.
(19) The oestradiol nuclear receptors (ERn) followed the same pattern in the 3 sampling areas.
(20) In the untreated BPH group, ER were higher in the n than in the c fraction: ERn were positive in 14 cases and ERc in 12 of 17 cases.