The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum.

Probably it had reached its maximum of some 120 by about 1120.

By 1952, the program reached a planned maximum of 3,500 students.

In the 1990s the population reached its maximum to this day (26,500).

The species has been known to reach a maximum of 45 cm long.

Sentences, which can now reach a maximum of four years, would be limited to about 18 months.

By the mid-1900s the sensitivity of the original design had reached its maximum.

It is therefore important to discover them well before they reach their maximum.

The level of unemployment that we are seeing today in Europe has not yet reached its maximum.

After about 800 million years the mean surface temperature probably reached a maximum of 300 C, and the pressure half as much higher than today.