return period in a sentence

Examples

1. Flows measured at Nottingham were exceptionally low by the end of August, and were given a drought return period of greater than one hundred years.
2. Landsat 7 has an average return period of 16 days . For many smaller areas, images with resolution as high as 41 cm can be available.
3. The confidence belt around an experimental cumulative frequency or return period curve gives an impression of the region in which the true distribution may be found.
4. Between the mid 1980s and 2001 the return period for these winds was approximately one in three years, but has been less commonly observed in recent years.
5. Return periods are also used for forecasting other rare events, such as cyclones and floods, and assume that future frequency will be similar to observed frequency to date.
6. The bulk of the rain fell in only two days in Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg, which is thought to have a return period of more than 100 years.
7. The waters inundated about 82, 000 km 2 of land, ( about 60 % of the area ) and its return period was estimated at 50 100 years.
8. For areas even a little further west, however, the skewness is too high to use this method, but there can be little doubt that the return periods are similar.
9. Strong winds caused a power outage in both Fitzroy River caused by Cyclone Beni resulted in a moderate flood with an estimated return period of four years at Rockhampton.
10. The design earthquake magnitude was specified as moment magnitude of 7.25 and design of functional and safety evaluation earthquakes have a return period of 500 and 2, 500 years, respectively.