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Example sentences for "about eighty"

  • This Lake is about eighty miles in length, north and south, and is nearly circular.

  • This bay is about eighty miles in length, and in general about eighteen or twenty miles broad.

  • Lake Champlain, the next in size to Lake Ontario, and which lies nearly east from it, is about eighty miles in length, north and south, and in its broadest part fourteen.

  • The ground was dug to the depth of about eighty feet, when no water appearing the work was abandoned.

  • It is a square building of about eighty- five feet the side, with a semicircular projection on the E.

  • Fifteen days were consumed in ascending from the foot of the first rapid to the head of the falls, a distance of about eighty miles, but full of all kinds of obstructions.

  • The village was situated under a hill on the bank of the river, and consisted of about eighty lodges.

  • Oregon city, situated at the falls on the east side of the river, contains over five hundred souls, about eighty houses, viz.

  • From the river, upon this side, immediately at the Falls, there rises a rocky bluff of about eighty feet in height, which bears off to the northeast.

  • Tears are physical emblems of grief, and fellow-feeling calls forth sympathetic tears.

  • Some physiologists affirm that no organ receives a greater quantity of blood, according to its size, than the spleen.

  • About eighty of us went on this occasion along with Mazariegos, and had the good fortune to find the district in the best disposition.

  • A bath of about eighty degrees, as Buxton Bath, is of service; a colder bath may do great injury.

  • Immediately behind the Frenchman's house, and affording an agreeable shade, was a handsome grove of Casuarinas about eighty feet in height.

  • The tower as it stands is about eighty feet in height, and as its base is now about forty yards distant from high-water mark on the beach, as an article of utility it is quite effete.

  • Between Reading and Pottsville there are about eighty locks, several of which we passed; at one time I saw seven together, which formed a very pleasing sight.

  • New Harmony, at the entrance of the forest, which will be cleared to make the land fit for cultivation, and consists of nine log houses, first tenanted about four weeks since, by about eighty persons.

  • A new pair of wooden stairs of about eighty steps, built for the accommodation of strangers, leads to the bed of the river.

  • He is a native of Virginia, about eighty years of age, and a school-mate of President Jefferson.

  • Defn: A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species.

  • A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about fifteen; about fifty; about forty; about four; about half the length; about him; about latitude; about midnight; about seven; about six; about sixty; about some; about ten; about twice; about two hundred yards; about two inches long; dead whale; graduate work; guard the; high official; how far; little wistfully; members are popularly elected; short course; trained nurses; whole night