The recovery time after a one-stage operation or after the final operation of a two-stage surgery is usually 6 to 8 weeks.

The procedure came into wide use about seven years ago, replacing a quicker but less effective one-step operation.

Originally performed in a two-step process, Whipple refined his technique in 1940 into a one-step operation.

Trying to raise the roof in a downpour, I noted the multiple steps required, in contrast to Mazda's one-hand, one-step operation.

While an adult may think of putting on a pair of socks as a simple, one-step operation, it can be complex for children who are trying it for the first time.

Setting up template families for each of these versions is a one-time operation.

He calls for a one-time operation, within existing quotas.

I hesitated, and went on: "So it was strictly a one-time operation?

A programmer might inline a function manually through copy and paste programming, as a one-time operation on the source code.

That was because the approach to Mr. Oberwetter was a one-time operation that technically fell outside of the kind of action that required formal approval, they said.

Because Maya and Houdini's Boolean operations are created as live nodes, not flat one-time operations, they can be used in animation for effects like ground cracking during an earthquake:

To speak they would have to unclip the belt unit and hold it to their lips, but that should be a one-time operation if one of the warriors spotted a threat, and by then it wouldn't matter.

In the aftermath of the magazine disclosures, Mr. Shultz, who had long opposed the initiative, urged Mr. Poindexter in a cable to make it clear in a public statement that the Iran initiative was a "special one-time operation based on humanitarian grounds."