(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.
Fra
Definition:
(adv. & prep.) Fro.
(n.) Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking this into account, we derived equilibrium equations for the fragile X [fra(X)] genotype frequencies.
(2) In this paper we present data on the cognitive abilities analyzed by systematic, standardized psychometric testing in 18 fra(X) boys who participated in a multicenter, longitudinal study.
(3) In female relatives, a relationship was found between the fra(X) carrier status and psychopathology including schizoaffective and major affective disorders.
(4) In the second family, there is a severe mentally retarded 3-year-old boy with fra (X) syndrome who besides typical phenotipic changes also exhibits symptoms of autism.
(5) By using a two-step procedure, it is possible to screen a large population of the mentally retarded for fra(X) without testing each male cytogenetically.
(6) If this proves reliable, a request for a fra(X) cytogenetic analysis could be limited to the clinically screened matching cases, rather than the present costly exercise of testing all undiagnosed intellectually handicapped children.
(7) The precipitating FCE reaction antibody (FRA) in sera of rabbits at 20 min and 24 h after i.v.
(8) In the growth-arrested cells, a small amount of 6.8 kilobase (kb) fra-2 transcript was synthesized and several species (40-46 kilodaltons (kd) of hypophosphorylated fra-2 gene products (Fra-2) were detected.
(9) Since 1985, we have provided coordinated DNA-based and cytogenetic prenatal analysis for couples at risk for offspring afflicted with the fragile X [fra(X)] syndrome.
(10) The fra(12)(q24.2) was expressed in 34%-48% of metaphases in lymphocyte cultures from carriers when BrdU and FdU were added 6.5 h before harvest, while the expression ranged between 5% and 20% when the cultures were treated with BrdU alone.
(11) In the preschool age group the majority of fra(X) boys was mildly mentally retarded.
(12) In addition, one published fra(X) pedigree includes an apparently normal male who expresses cytogenetically the fra(X) site at high frequency and who has 3 daughters.
(13) The FPG, HbA1C and FRA levels in diabetic subjects distributed over a wide range overlapping largely with the distributions of non-diabetic subjects.
(14) The reliable detection of fra(X)(q27.3) in prenatal samples is important for providing genetic counseling.
(15) Some hypotheses, explaining complicated mechanism of fra-X syndrome inheritance are discussed.
(16) The ultrastructural localization of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA, IgM), complement component (C3c), or fibrinogen-related antigen (FRA) was investigated on 5 biopsy samples from 5 children with idiopathic MN or lupus nephritis using protein A-gold (PAG) complex method.
(17) Although most males with the fragile-X [fra(X)] syndrome do not reproduce, there are 2 published pedigrees that include affected males who have daughters and who thus appear to have transmitted the fragile-X chromosome to their progeny.
(18) Effective Fis fell within the excitatory FRA of a given multi-unit.
(19) Thirteen patients were found to carry fra(X) (6.5%).
(20) In this paper we report the results of a brief examination of verbal learning and memory in 20 heterozygous fragile X [fra(X)] positive females and in 2 control groups of 20 subjects each.