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:

  • 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.

  • These rates were calculated by the direct method with the United States standard population for the year 2000 [ 13 ] . Rates were calculated for both LDS and nonLDS populations in Utah and are expressed per 100,000 person-years.

  • 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 in unexposed controls were calculated as: (total number in the control group) × (the number of years from age 40 to the average age of the group).

  • 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.


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