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Example sentences for "certain quantity"

  • It represents a certain sum of contingency entering into the world, that is to say, a certain quantity of possible action--a quantity variable with individuals and especially with species.

  • Brandy also contains a certain quantity of free acid, which increases with age, furfural, which decreases, and small quantities of other matters of which we have as yet little knowledge.

  • Brandy is stored in specially selected oak casks, from which it extracts a certain quantity of colouring matter and tannin, &c.

  • Many plants endure severe frost, but cannot ripen their seeds without a certain intensity of summer heat and a certain quantity of light; others cannot endure a similar intensity either of heat or cold.

  • A certain quantity of heat will make some bodies good conductors, that will not otherwise conduct.

  • Still, important as it was to economize the gas, the excessive lowness of the surrounding temperature obliged them to consume a certain quantity.

  • They necessarily consumed a certain quantity of gas, for they were obliged to keep the producing substance at a temperature of above 400..

  • A guinea-- said Adam Smith-- may be considered as a bill for a certain quantity of necessaries and conveniences upon all the tradesmen in the neighborhood.

  • Adam Smith says: A guinea may be considered as a bill for a certain quantity of necessaries and conveniences upon all the tradesmen in the neighborhood.

  • No doubt, a certain amount of difficulties being given, it is fortunate that a certain quantity of labour also given should [p326] surmount as many of these difficulties as possible.

  • Or this: Given on the one hand a certain quantity of clay, and on the other a potter, what should the potter do in order to turn that clay to the best account?

  • It requires a certain quantity of heat to take you to the sideboard; and exactly the same quantity to bring you back again.

  • The process, which is patented in Paris, is described as follows: Chloride of platinum is dissolved in water, and a certain quantity of oil of lavender is added to the solution.

  • Then we are told how many baskets of fruit they carried away, and what distribution there was of sweetmeats at the end, every one taking a certain quantity.

  • The amount of this excess of sugar is greater in proportion to the strength of the wort, since a certain quantity of alcohol, already formed, prevents the operation of the ferment on the remaining wort.

  • It will be found on trial that 20 barrels of wort drawn from a certain quantity of malt, by two successive mashings, will not be so rich in fermentable matter as 20 barrels extracted by ten successive sparges of two barrels each.

  • The gluten suffers a change at the same time, and becomes acescent, so that only a certain quantity of starch can be thus converted by a quantity of gluten.

  • The promise of a certain quantity of his beloved liquor, coupled with the prospect of an evening's drunkenness, speedily got the better of his reluctance.

  • It is given to you in profusion; the moment your cup is empty, a silent attendant fills it, and your host will not permit you to mention the subject of your visit till you have drunk a certain quantity.

  • A certain quantity of water must be given with every diuretic dose, and the larger the quantity the greater will be the effect produced.

  • It is also likely that a certain quantity would be sufficient to exhaust for a time the acid gastric secretion.

  • We find too that when a certain quantity of a saline is administered, too great to pass off readily by the kidneys, it prefers to act on the bowels.

  • But it is not right that there should be more than a certain quantity of this acid in the system.

  • Like the Emulsine in the production of Hydrocyanic acid out of the material of the bitter almond, they must be present in certain quantity, or they are quite inoperative.

  • The small Islands which lie about a League to the Westward of this pays Annually a Certain quantity of Arica Nutts, which is almost the only produce of that Island.

  • Serfs were required to perform certain tasks on the lands of their master and to pay him a certain quantity of the produce of their own.

  • Every country, he says, needs a certain quantity of money to carry on trade.

  • If the labourer's wages at the former period, were a certain quantity of food and necessaries, he probably could not have subsisted if that quantity had been reduced.

  • Suppose too, that this machine, without any labour whatever, could produce a certain quantity of commodities annually, and that profits were 10 per cent.

  • Lime made according to the common mode, and put upon the tongue, even before slacked by air or water, has a savour which indicates the presence of a certain quantity of alkali.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beat until; certain days; certain evening; certain great; certain kinds; certain king; certain laws; certain minimum; certain number; certain periods; certain person; certain persons; certain plants; certain points; certain portions; certain price; certain quantity; certain quarters; certain special; certain substances; certain type; certainly not; certainly true; fourteen days; money matters; rapid stream