Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
des périodes de l’ordre
English translation:
periods of around ten years or more
Added to glossary by
Vanessa Lindsey
Oct 7, 2004 11:21
19 yrs ago
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des périodes de l’ordre
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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. "
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. "
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +2 | periods of around ten years or more |
Isabel Peck
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| 3 +1 | periods in the order of ten years or more |
Brainstorm
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| 4 | for about a decade |
Aisha Maniar
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Proposed translations
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11 mins
Isabel Peck
Portugal
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Portugal
15 yrs - engineering to art criticism
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French term (edited):
des p�riodes de l�ordre
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periods of around ten years or more
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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+1
2 mins
Brainstorm
Austria
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Austria
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French term (edited):
des p�riodes de l�ordre
periods in the order of ten years or more
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
"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
6 mins
Aisha Maniar
Native in English
French/Arabic-English legal translator
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK) 
Works in: Arabic to English, French to English, English
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French term (edited):
des p�riodes de l�ordre
for about a decade
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"
or "for at least a decade" or "...the next ten years"
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