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Forms: durée, durées. - The **duration** of a football match is 90 minutes. La **durée** d'un match de football est de 90 minutes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8953518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8953518) [\#9730671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9730671)) - God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless **duration**. Dieu ne peut rien ajouter au bonheur de ceux qui s'aiment que de leur donner la **durée** sans fin. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20205) - then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long **duration**, and severe sicknesses, and of long **duration**. l’Éternel te frappera miraculeusement, toi et ta postérité, par des plaies grandes et de longue **durée**, par des maladies graves et opiniâtres. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 28:59) - We should in fact be putting this **duration** back under the microscope. En fait, nous devrions réétudier cette **durée**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 626169) - **duration** of flame in s; **durée** de la flamme en secondes; ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1439907) ## périodes Used about 3 026 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 912 · UN documents ≈ 2 114). - In quite a number of investigations, for various reasons, **durations** of less than five years have been adopted. Dans un certain nombre d'enquêtes, pour des raisons diverses, des **périodes** de moins de cinq ans ont été adoptées. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2214769) - (b) Children may be subject to pretrial detention and for extended **durations**; b) Les enfants peuvent être placés en détention avant jugement, et ce, pendant des **périodes** prolongées; ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 26058084) - A Member State may divide the days present within the area given in Table I into management periods of **durations** of one or more calendar months. Un État membre peut diviser les jours de présence dans la zone indiqués dans le tableau I en **périodes** de gestion d'un ou de plusieurs mois civils. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2072256) - (c) The use of the services of consultants for long **durations** to carry out line functions; Des consultants sont engagés pour de longues **périodes** afin de remplir des fonctions d ' exécution. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 3293426) - A Member State may divide the days present within the area given in Table I into management periods of **durations** of one or more calendar months. Tout État membre peut diviser les jours de présence dans la zone indiqués dans le tableau I en **périodes** de gestion d'un ou de plusieurs mois civils. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2334420) ## jours Used about 302 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 302). - The three thematic committees shall meet biennially for a maximum **duration** of three days for each session. Les trois comités thématiques se réunissent tous les deux ans pour une session de trois **jours** au maximum. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9208468) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The **duration** of a football match is 90 minutes. Un match de football dure 90 minutes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8953518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8953518) [\#9730672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9730672)) - I should also like to inform my colleague, Mr Stubb, that there was more than one group leader in the Chamber for the **duration** of the debate. Je voudrais également informer mon collègue, M. Stubb, qu’il y avait plus qu’un chef de groupe présent dans l’Assemblée tout au long du débat. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 811057) - The Millennium Development Goals deadline falls within the **duration** of the first financing instrument for development cooperation. La date de réalisation des objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement tombe dans la période couverte par le premier instrument de financement de la coopération au développement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1573913) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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