Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
within a minimum period of time
Spanish translation:
en un corto plazo/ minimo plazo de tiempo
English term
Enjoyable texts
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
within a minimum period of time
Major incident plans will include a sectorised load shedding plan, which will enable the system to be shut down safely within a minimum period of time (and this will be specified in the plan).
Jun 23, 2008 15:52: Karissa Misi (X) changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/107258">Spanish-English Translator's</a> old entry - "within a minimum period of time "" to ""en un corto plazo/ minimo plazo de tiempo""
Proposed translations
en un corto plazo/ minimo plazo de tiempo
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Gracias!
Spain
Technical, Marketing, HR, Education
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish
en un periodo de tiempo mínimo
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Ligia Dias Costa
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Gracias, Ligia
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Claudia Luque Bedregal
8 mins
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Gracias, Claudia ;)
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Ma. Fernanda Blesa
: "período de tiempo" es redundante
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Alejandro García
20 hrs
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Mexico
Mexican translator proofreader +20 years
Native in: Spanish 
, Italian
Works in: English to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, French to Spanish, and 5 more.
en un periodo de tiempo corto
en un periodo de tiempo mínimo
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Claudia Luque Bedregal
8 mins
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Gracias, Claudia!
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Ma. Fernanda Blesa
: "período de tiempo" es redundante
27 mins
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Uruguay
ATA-certified English-Spanish translator
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Latin American) 
Works in: English to Spanish
dentro de un plazo mínimo
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P Forgas
1 min
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Gracias, Patricia.
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Luisa Ramos, CT
: Sí, que se especificará en el plan, según dice entre paréntesis.
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Gracias, Luisa.
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Argentina
45 yrs' experience in most every field
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Rioplatense, Latin American, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Standard-Spain, Uruguayan, Bolivian, Argentine, US)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish, and 1 more.
en tiempo mínimo
Netherlands
34 years' experience
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, Dutch to Spanish
en/dentro de/ un período mínimo de tiempo
United States
43 years of Border Experience and fast.
Native in: English , Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
a la brevedad posible
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Jennifer Levey
: No, that is not the correct meaning. Please see my answer for an explantion.
3 days 19 hrs
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Creo que "posible" contempla todos los parámetros que puedan ser aplicables, pues lógicamente tienen que observarse.
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dentro de un minimo periodo de tiempo / dentro de un periodo de tiempo minimo
Conforme al contexto la mejor opción es dentro de.
Argentina
Accurate, reliable, fast, cost-effective
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
en el menor tiempo posible
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Veronique Bodoutchian
57 mins
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gracias Veronique :)
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Abaz
2 hrs
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gracias Abaz :)
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Marina56
20 hrs
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gracias Marina :) Lo que digo es que decir "período de tiempo" es redundante, ¿de qué otra cosa puede ser un período? Wikipedia es una buena fuente de información, sí, pero yo no la usaría para demostrar cuestiones gramaticales, todos pueden escribir allí
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slothm
: Correcto. Lapso de tiempo también es reundante, o lapso o tiempo.
1 day 3 hrs
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gracias slothm :)
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Jennifer Levey
: No, that is not the correct meaning. Please see my answer for an explantion.
3 days 19 hrs
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I stand by my answer, "posible" covers the possibility of different times on different occasions. The part you mention establishing a max. allowed period of time to do this corresponds to the text in parenthesis in the source, not included in the question
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Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
dentro de un tiempo mínimo determinado
The text means that regardless of the circumstances, the shut-down must be completed within a pre-determined time-scale (and this time-scale will be specified - i.e. made known to users).
In some circumstances it may be possible shut the system down much faster than the specified time (that would be shutting down 'as rapidly as possible'), but in the worst-case scenario it must still be possible to shut down within the specified time-scale.
So, 'minimum', here, refers in fact to the *maximum allowed time*.
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