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Duration

Bond duration – the average time until all the cash flows from a bond are delivered.


2006 FIFA World Cup officials

The 21 referees, along with their assistants and the support group, are based in Neu-Isenburg for the duration of the tournament.

5MMM

Triple M launched High Voltage Radio, a "pop up" Digital Radio station that exclusively plays AC/DC for the duration of the band's 2010 tour of Australia.

Air combat during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus

This force was heavily committed to operations over Cyprus for the duration of the 1974 invasion, and consisted of multiple fighter squadrons equipped with F-5, RF-84F, F-100, F-102 and F-104 combat aircraft, as well as C-130, C-160 and C-47 transport planes.

Alessandro Pistone

Pistone started his career at Solbiatese and Crevalcore, two small Italian teams who in recent years have slid to the lowest tier of professional Italian football, before moving to Vicenza for the duration of the 1995–96 season.

Arturo Colautti

For the duration of the exile, Colautti maintained close contacts with the Dalmatian irredentists and actively participated nationally in various events and conferences.

Black Nite Crash

The track, which is approximately 0:23 in duration uses the same tune as "Wilmot" by Sabres of Paradise (a single from 1994), which in turn uses a sample of a track from 1931 by Wilmoth Houdini entitled "Black But Sweet"

Blacknor Fort

These were discontinued and moved to Aberporth, Wales, when it became clear that Blacknor Fort would be needed by the army for the duration of the emergency that was developing into the Second World War.

Bryostatin

It was able to increase the duration of memory retention of the marine slug Hermissenda crassicornis by over 500%.

Curtiss CS

The first of these took place overnight between 22 and 23 June, when Lt Frank Wead and Lt John D. Price set five records - distance (963.123 mi, 1,544.753 km), duration (13 hours, 23 minutes, 15 seconds), speed over 500 km (73.41 mph, 117.74 km/h), speed over 1,000 km (74.27mph, 119.12 km/h) and speed over 1,500 km (74.17 mph/118.96 km/h).

Fokker 70

The Fokker 70's first flight occurred on April 4, 1993, at the company's base at Woensdrecht in southern Netherlands, and had a duration of three hours.

François-Jean de Chastellux

Being on general Rochambeau's staff for the duration of the war, Chastellux acted as the principal liaison officer between the French commander in chief and George Washington.

Gotland-class submarine

In 2004, the Swedish government received a request from the United States of America to lease HMS Gotland – Swedish-flagged, commanded and manned, for a duration of one year for use in anti-submarine warfare exercises.

Hans Berger Haus

Ellmauer Halt (2.344 m), over the Kaiserschützensteig (climbing path), duration: 5 hours

Hanukkah bush

A Hanukkah bush is a bush or tree—real or simulated—that some North American Jewish families display in their homes for the duration of Hanukkah.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper

EVA Two (Duration 6 hours, 45 minutes) -- With astronaut Robert S. Kimbrough, Stefanyshyn-Piper relocated the two Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) carts from the starboard side of the Mobile Transporter to the port side, lubricated the station robotic arm’s latching end effector A snare bearings, continued cleaning and lubrication of the starboard SARJ.

High-definition television in the United Kingdom

For the duration of the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Channel 4 operated three high-definition channels dedicated to the Paralympics on Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media, as well as one channel on Freeview.

IBM System/36

If the operator "dialed up" the combination F-F-0-0 before performing an IPL, many diagnostics were skipped, causing the duration of the IPL to be about a minute instead of about 10 minutes.

Infusion Therapy

Until the 1980s, patients receiving infusion therapy had to remain in an inpatient setting for the duration of their therapy.

Japanese destroyer Okikaze

In April 1942, Okikaze was recalled to the Yokosuka Naval District, where it was assigned anti-submarine patrols of the entrance of Tokyo Bay for the duration of the war, making only an occasional convoy escort run along the coast of Japan to Kushimoto, Wakayama or patrols of the coast of northern Honshū through the end of 1942.

Joe Thornton

Joe, along with Rachel McAdams, is a highly regarded citizen by the people of St. Thomas and has contributed to the community for the duration of his career.

John Charles Molteno, Jr.

For the duration of his career, he served as the confidential agent of his brother, the shipping magnate Percy Molteno.

Józef Cyrek

After a detention of c.43 days in duration at Montelupich, Dembowski was transferred on or about 23 December 1939, together with the other arrested Jesuits, to another notorious Gestapo prison at Wiśnicz, which was in reality (if not in name) a Nazi extermination camp in which prisoners were worked to death.

Kameisha Jerae Hodge

Kameisha has attended nine schools throughout the duration of her life, these schools included Ephriam Kimball Elementary School, John Phillip Sousa Middle School, Bertie Backus Middle School, General G. James Gholson Middle School, Bladensburg High School, Potomac High School, Friendship Collegiate Academy Public Charter School and the University of District of Columbia simultaneously as a student in the Early College Program, and received a Bachelor's Degree in the Arts at Lafayette College.

Lee Archambault

The mission delivered the final set of solar arrays to the space station, as well as long duration crew member Koichi Wakata.

Lionel Halsey

During the battles Halsey wore the Māori piupiu over his uniform, setting a tradition followed for the duration of the war.

Ludu U Hla

An old school friend of Daw Amar's father, he was famous for his excellent adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Brigadier Gerard as well as his translations of H. Rider Haggard's Alan Quartermain novels and was arrested at the same time as U Hla but he was to remain in Mandalay Prison for the duration.

Mora IK

During the 2012 NHL Lockout, Bobby Ryan of Anaheim Ducks and Anze Kopitar of the Stanley Cup-winning Los Angeles Kings joined the team to play with his brother, Gašper, for the duration of the lockout.

Morocco–Portugal relations

Of the 6 stand-alone fortresses, four of them only had a short duration: Graciosa (1489), São João da Mamora (1515), Castelo Real of Mogador (1506–10) and Aguz (1520–25).

Orion Lite

The intention of designing Orion Lite would be to provide a stripped down version of the Orion that will be available for missions to the International Space Station earlier than the more capable Orion, which is designed for longer duration missions to the Moon, Mars, Lagrange points, and Near Earth asteroids.

Peyret Tandem

After Itford Maneyrol increased the world glider duration record in the Peyret Tandem to 485 minutes at Vauville on 23 January 1923.

Proposition bet

:*Betting on specific aspects of the pageantry surrounding a sporting event, such as a) the duration of the word "brave" in the pregame performance of the U.S. national anthem or b) the color of the Gatorade or other sports drink dumped on the winning team's coach in the traditional practical joke and victory ritual known as Gatorade shower

RAF Condover

Airmen and WAAF personnel were accommodated in prefabricated Quonset hutting and the officers were housed in the nearby magnificent Elizabethan manor house, Condover Hall, that had been commandeered by the War Office for the duration of the war.

Rheobase

The strength-duration curve was first discovered by G. Weiss in 1901, but it was not until 1909 that Louis Lapicque coined the term "rheobase".

Richards Bay

In May 2010 it was announced that the Nigeria football team would move their base to Richards Bay for the duration of the World Cup.

Saint Bavo Cathedral

The painting was stored in a museum in Pau for the duration of the war, as French, Belgian and German military representatives signed an agreement which required the consent of all three before the masterpiece could be moved.

Samskrita Bharati

Chamu Krishna Shastry, a Sanskrit Scholar from Tirupati Sanskrit College along with 5 of his friends, after graduating in Sanskrit, came up with a methodology of teaching spoken Sanskrit through "Speak Samskritam" course with 10 day capsule classes of 2 hour duration.

Sarah

In the Christian fiction novel Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, the protagonist, called "Angel" throughout the duration of the story, is barren.

Sinking of the Petrel

The surviving rebels were eventually sent to Philadelphia in the steamship USS Flag to be charged for piracy but the accusation was not justified and the sailors were taken to Moyamensing Prison for the duration of the war.

Spaceflight radiation carcinogenesis

These limits are applicable to all missions in low Earth orbit (LEO) as well as lunar missions that are less than 180 days in duration.

Stroboscopic

Strobe light, high-intensity and short-duration stroboscopic device

Sweet Valley High

Sweet Valley High is a novel series created by Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters for the entire duration of the series' creation.

Tag 26

Tag 26 (2002, duration of 18 minutes approx.) is the third short film by German director Andreas Samland.

Talgat Musabayev

His third spaceflight was a short duration visiting mission to the International Space Station, which also carried the first paying space tourist Dennis Tito.

TDMoIP

In GSM cellular networks, the Abis channel that connects the Base Transceiver Station (BTS) and Base Station Controller (BSC) is an E1 link with several framing alternatives, all of which have a basic superframe duration of 20 milliseconds.

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Second City Firsts, also of 30 minutes duration, fulfilled much the same role.

Three Marlenas

A music video (directed by Big TV!) was produced for the song, beginning with Jakob Dylan emerging out of the ocean and walking around a city for the duration of the song.

Type 90 240 mm railway gun

It was redeployed to Manchukuo in 1941, and based in the Hulin area of Heilongjiang, as part of the defenses against the Soviet Union, where it remained for the duration of World War II.

Wiener-Neustädter Hut

from Ehrwald along the Georg-Jäger-Steig (duration: 4 hrs)

World Cuppa

World Cuppa was a one-hour ITV4 show, which launched on 9 June 2006 and ran for the duration of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.


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