(n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Metformin 0.5 g trice daily or placebo were given for 4 weeks.
(2) This dorsal approach, easy to perform, ensures in a trice the "resting position" of the thumb and the articular congruity.
(3) meter disposable dialyzers and a dialysis strategy of 3 hours every other day or 4 hours trice weekly have been presented.
(4) In Groups B, C, D, G, H and I, the wound was painted trice weekly with a 0.5% solution of Trp-P-2 in DMSO for 8 weeks.
(5) This is the kind of creative accounting that could end the deficit in a trice.)
(6) Soaring inflation could and would destroy that link in a trice.
(7) In Groups A and F, the wound was painted trice weekly with DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) for 8 weeks.
(8) He was treated with bicarbonated hemodialysis trice weekly.
(9) I lope into Café Rui and in a trice they've laid me a place and grilled me some fat small sardines, and found a handful of small squid, which they fry in good oil with cloves of golden garlic.
(10) Bank regulation has been kicked into 2019 – political neverland: in a trice the entire NHS is put up for tender to "any qualified provider" , but banks get seven years to "prepare" while they lobby against already weak reforms.
(11) Don't look for consistency, either: MacMillan could veer between genius, excess and claptrap in a trice – and deciding which is which still divides opinion to this day.
(12) To determine the effect of a recombinant alpha interferon 2b (Intron-A) and possible benefit of prednisolone pretreatment in chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis, 75 Chinese patients with clinico-histologically proven chronic hepatitis were randomly allocated to one of the following regimens: (A) 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 6 months; (B) dose titration according to ALT-AST values; (C) prednisolone withdrawal followed by regimen A; (D) control group: no treatment for 6 months but followed by alternating treatment with 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 2 weeks followed by 2 weeks no treatment for 6 months.
(13) And Jill Abramson , executive editor of the New York Times , was out in a trice, too – sacked, brushed away, her name erased from the paper's masthead with a ruthlessness Kim Jong-Il might have envied.
Trine
Definition:
(a.) Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.
(n.) The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon.
(n.) A triad; trinity.
(v. t.) To put in the aspect of a trine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trine Hahnemann is a Danish chef and food writer; trinehahnemann.com Anissa Helou’s baked fish with a coriander and nut stuffing Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Here is a quick and particularly delicious way of preparing fish.
(2) Dr Trine Brox of the University of Copenhagen, who researches democratisation in the exile community, said very few exile Tibetans understood or accepted the Dalai Lama's distinction between his political and religious authority.
(3) Vivek Singh is executive chef and CEO of The Cinnamon Club, London SW1; cinnamonclub.com Trine Hehnemann’s frikadeller with mushroom, parsley and boiled potato and celeriac Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Frikadeller is the national dish of Denmark and a favourite among children.
(4) "Explosives were found at the farm," police prosecutor Trine Dyngeland told Reuters.