The goal of every home seller is to find a suitable buyer who wants to close a deal under the shortest possible timeline. (jacobrealty.com)
I'd suggest evaluating deals against the worst possible timeline (s), but calculating a min / max. (wexboy.wordpress.com)
The policy analysis showed that in districts across the United States, tenure continues to protect ineffective veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal, the shortest possible timeline for dismissing such a teacher is unreasonably protracted, and dismissal is vulnerable to challenge. (educationnext.org)