time frame

noun

variants: or less commonly timeframe play \ˈtīm-ˌfrām\

|Updated on: 11 Aug 2018

Examples: time frame in a Sentence

Editor's Note: time frame or timeframe?

Definition of time frame

: a period of time especially with respect to some action or project

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Examples of time frame in a Sentence

They were not able to finish the project within the established time frame.

Recent Examples of time frame from the Web

That’s the equivalent of an extra game in the same time frame as France.

— ed barkowitz, Philly.com, "Atlantic City bookies offer odds and props for Sunday's World Cup final between France and Croatia," 13 July 2018
In Tucson during the same time frame, 602 non-military applications were received, 739 were approved, 83 were denied, and 1,768 were marked as pending.

— jessica suriano, azcentral, "Mesa to celebrate Fourth of July with fireworks, naturalization ceremony for new citizens," 2 July 2018
The number detained by the San Diego field office, which would include immigrants at both Otay Mesa and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility, has risen 17 percent, from 1,640 to 1,914 in the same time frame.

— kate morrissey, sandiegouniontribune.com, "CoreCivic moves to expand Otay Mesa Detention Center," 24 June 2018
The number detained by the San Diego field office, which would include immigrants at both Otay Mesa and the Imperial Regional Detention Facility, has risen 17%, from 1,640 to 1,914 in the same time frame.

— kate morrissey, latimes.com, "Operator moves to expand detention center for migrants in San Diego County," 24 June 2018
Over that same time frame, an index of small biotech stocks has beaten the S&P 500 by more than 50 percentage points.

— charley grant, WSJ, "What Is Ailing the Drug Industry?," 22 June 2018
During the same time frame as the latest civil rights case, Ravelo was accused of hitting a driver with his fist during a traffic stop in April 2013 and of striking another person with a blunt object a few months later.

— charles rabin and jay weaver, miamiherald, "Ex-police chief, 2 officers framed teen for burglaries in tiny Miami town, feds say," 11 June 2018
Over the same time frame, the portion of administrative segregation inmates who are white decreased by 4 percentage points and the portion who are Hispanic dropped by just over 3 percentage points.

— keri blakinger, Houston Chronicle, "Black prisoners in Texas more likely to be in solitary, even as use of isolation decreases," 21 Apr. 2018
Approved applications, meanwhile, have gone up 67 percent, from 42,724 to 71,456 during the same time frame.

— marco santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, "It's 4/20: Do you know where your Orlando medical marijuana dispensary is?," 20 Apr. 2018

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time frame or timeframe?

Should time frame be written as one word or two? At present, it is most commonly styled as two words with no hyphen in between.

Compounds, or “words consisting of components that are words,” come in three varieties: open (two words with a space between them, such as lima bean), hyphenated (two words with a hyphen between them, such as runner-up), and closed (one word, such as rowboat). In some cases, competing compound stylings appear in different publications. This is generally acceptable as long as the spelling remains consistent throughout a book or periodical.

Compounds have a tendency to move from open to closed as time goes by, and our evidence suggests that time frame is headed in this direction. At this point, however, the open compound is far more prevalent.