Example sentences for: person-years

How can you use “person-years” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • During the years 1995-1999, age-adjusted (to the 2000 US population) invasive cancer incidence rates in white men for the leading 10 sites, per 100,000 person-years, were 393.

  • Person-years of follow-up were calculated separately for each disease outcome.

  • A typical turnkey 500 MWe unit FGD system retrofit requires 380,000=man-hours, or approximately 200 person-years, of which 20 percent, or 72,000 man-hours, are dedicated to engineering and project management,3 and roughly 40 percent of man-hours are for boilermakers.

  • Person-years of follow-up were computed for each cohort as the amount of time since the NHANES I examination to the date of the first of the following events: date of ICD-9 disease code of interest from the health care facility stay files, date of death from the NHEFS mortality file, or the last day of contact from the 1992 NHEFS vital status file.

  • Indeed, an older study based on Utah data covering the years 1971 through 1985 found that the age-adjusted (to the 1970 US standard) prostate cancer incidence rates per 100,000 person-years were 76.


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