  This article addresses the issue of estimating the duration in inflation in
bouncing cosmology when anisotropies, inevitably playing an important role, are
taken into account. It is shown that in Bianchi-I loop quantum cosmology, the
higher the shear, the shorter the period of inflation. In a range of
parameters, the probability distribution function of the duration of inflation
is however peaked at values compatible with data, but not much higher. This
makes the whole bounce/inflationary scenario consistent and phenomenologically
appealing as all the information from the bounce might then not have been fully
washed out.
