French: des périodes de l’ordreEnglish translation: periods of around ten years or more 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | des périodes de l’ordre | | English translation: | periods of around ten years or more | | Entered by: | Vanessa Lindsey |
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Philosophy | | French term or phrase: des périodes de l’ordre | Philosophical speech on landmines
Context:
"La pratique qui consiste à infester des pays de bombes à retardement créant une situation d’ingérabilité économique et d’insécurité, voire de sidération psychique sur des périodes de l’ordre d’une dizaine d’année ou plus, appartient de plein droit à cet horizon de la transformation de certaines populations en déchets qu’on écoule à un rythme raisonnable. " |
| | | periods of around ten years or more | Explanation:
You don't need "in the order of", but you need to include the suggestion that it could be less than 10 years as well as more. You could also use "about". |
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 Isabel Alves
Portugal
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| periods in the order of ten years or more
Explanation:
for periods of ten or more years/a decade or more
"in the order of" - can be left our in the English translation
We can readily understand time periods in the order of a human generation - instruct.uwo.ca/biology/284/time.html -
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Note added at 3 mins (2004-10-07 11:25:01 GMT)
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Helens has periods in the order of thousands of years when it\'s active
www.columbian.com/reflections/mtsthel2.html
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Note added at 5 mins (2004-10-07 11:26:45 GMT)
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However, some pulsars, known as millisecond pulsars, have extremely small periods - in the order of milliseconds - and very small period derivatives, these ...
www.atnf.csiro.au/research/ pulsar/wwwdev/Education_page.html
| Brainstorm
Austria
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| for about a decade
Explanation:
most simply put..."de l'ordre" (in the order of) can be left out here
or "for at least a decade" or "...the next ten years"
| Aisha Maniar
United Kingdom
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