time frame

noun

1. a period of time during which something has taken or will take place:

   We're talking about a time frame of five minutes for the president's visit.

time frame

noun

1. the period of time within which certain events are scheduled to occur

Word History and Origins

Origin of time frame¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Keyword search volume refers to how many times specific words were searched for during a given time frame.

From Search Engine Watch

Through memories and flashbacks that depart from the novel’s main time frame of 2011 to 2012, Fanis and other characters attempt to confront this traumatic history.

From Washington Post

The authority hasn’t released a construction time frame, a way to pay for it or a cost estimate beyond “multiple billions of dollars.”

From Washington Post

The fact that it would be in an environment that’s impacted by the zeitgeist helps us to build that time frame in.

From Digiday

We need to create mechanisms that incentivize participants in the digital world to consider longer time frames and the broader impact their actions are having on society.

From MIT Technology Review

But confirmation of that time frame has also been hard to come by.

From The Daily Beast

A team of two can train as many as 50 personnel over that four-hour time frame, USAMRIID told The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

When they changed the time frame, they changed the context of that scene.

From The Daily Beast

Inhalation anthrax, one of the most difficult to treat, does not carry a definitive time frame.

From The Daily Beast

Death by heroin increased 45 percent during the same time frame.

From The Daily Beast

Within the mentioned time-frame, many changes in the understanding of what literacy connotes have come about.

From Project Gutenberg