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Example sentences for "considerable amount"

  • Other products developed during combustion are carbon monoxid gas, a minute amount of prussic acid and in some varieties a considerable amount of furfurol, a poison.

  • The result of an inflammation of the pericardium may be a fibrous exudate, or an exudate which is both serous and fibrous, or one in which pus is present in considerable amount.

  • We do not advise the sowing of seed earlier than March, because a considerable amount of daylight is necessary to the development of rich tints and diversified markings in the foliage.

  • Kainit= is best applied in autumn, for it contains a considerable amount of common salt and magnesium compounds which are sometimes deleterious and best washed away in the drainage water during winter.

  • The kainit contains a considerable amount of salt, which is of value to this crop.

  • During these long and blank intervals I suppose that the inhabitants of each region underwent a considerable amount of modification and extinction, and that there was much migration from other parts of the world.

  • But these breaks are imaginary, and might have been inserted anywhere, after intervals long enough to allow the accumulation of a considerable amount of divergent variation.

  • Though capitalism may accentuate some types of crime, our knowledge of human nature leads us to suspect that a considerable amount of crime would exist under any known system of industry.

  • Many Negroes have become independent farmers and artisans, owning a considerable amount of property.

  • A considerable amount of ill-health is traceable to working with drugs and acids.

  • The lords also let a considerable amount of their demesne land on leases for years.

  • The rye checks the growth of weeds, and furnishes a considerable amount of succulent food for sheep, during the autumn or in the spring.

  • In other words, the plants and animals that have been sold from the farm, have carried off a considerable amount of plant-food.

  • There is a considerable amount of diversity of opinion as to their good and bad effects, but it will be found that the experience of most medical men is that when used in moderation they greatly relieve thirst and are not injurious.

  • Their lodgment in this little pocket is a constant source of peril, and would soon set up an inflammation, which must always be attended with a considerable amount of danger.

  • Of course it is not intended that the sole object of education should be the principles of money making, but at the same time there is a considerable amount of truth in his contention.

  • There was a considerable amount of shelling, but fortunately the Battalion in the trenches did not suffer.

  • There was also a considerable amount of shell fire.

  • There was still a considerable amount of transport on the east of the river, and it was expected that a fight would follow to allow this to get away.

  • The trenches, especially those occupied by B Company, had been much battered, and a considerable amount of work had to be done on them during the night.

  • In an ordinary compound fracture, such as we meet with in civil practice, whether the result of direct or indirect violence, a considerable amount of contusion or laceration, as the case may be, accompanies the injury to the bone.

  • A considerable amount of comminution of the olecranon resulted, and when the man came into hospital some ten days later the joint was suppurating.

  • In spite of a considerable amount of violence which has caused the escape of the core, the fissuring of the mantle is comparatively slight.

  • In this the man was struck from a distance of 300 yards, and a considerable amount of bone dust from the femur was found in the lips of the exit aperture.

  • Soon after the injury a considerable amount of blood was coughed up, and occasional hæmoptysis persisted for the next four days.

  • I felt round farther, and drew forth two bones with a considerable amount of meat on them.

  • Sixty years ago it was one of the most thickly populated and flourishing parts of equatorial Africa, the inhabitants having also attained to a considerable amount of civilisation, and made fair progress in many industrial arts.

  • My father, after a considerable amount of labour, proved his identity with the son of Mr Clement Leslie, who perished with his wife at sea, and established his claims to the property.

  • This part of the back calls for a considerable amount of force to hold it over this hollow, but we get a pillow inserted under the back, the muscles relax, and the patient rests.

  • The effect of back-rubbing, accompanied by easily assimilated food in small quantities and often, was to lessen his weight by a considerable amount.

  • It is not necessarily so at all, and even when a considerable amount of blood is lost, the patient may recover.

  • Macleod published a series of articles, giving the results of his observations, which excited a considerable amount of public attention, and elicited among educationists and others a warm discussion.

  • Before being hung in the Parliament House, this picture was exhibited in the Royal Academy of London, and attracted a considerable amount of attention.

  • But these breaks are imaginary, and might have been inserted anywhere, after intervals long enough to have allowed the accumulation of a considerable amount of divergent variation.

  • As we know that many tropical plants and animals can withstand a considerable amount of cold, many might have escaped extermination during a moderate fall of temperature, more especially by escaping into the warmest spots.

  • It has been received with a great deal of consideration by those who understand the subject, and a considerable amount of ridicule by those who do not.

  • It is better to have wind-screens, if necessary, rather than glass lanterns, as not only does the glass stop a considerable amount of light when clean, but it is in practice constantly dirty in almost every workshop or yard.

  • Professor Fitzgerald, of Dublin, spoke with a considerable amount of power, and showed a mastery of the subject that was pleasant not only to his friends, but must have been gratifying to the Americans who heard him.

  • You should never lather and scrub your skin as if it were a kitchen floor, for the reason that, with the dirt, the alkali also washes and dissolves out a considerable amount of the natural oil of the skin, and leaves it harsh and dry.

  • You may still have a considerable amount of leakage, but you have not made one line more go through the bent part.

  • In this device considerable noise must result by the cut off valve striking the cut off blocks, and a considerable amount of leakage is likely to occur past this valve.

  • As the engines leave the maker's hand the engines are provided with a considerable amount of lap to give plenty of compression, but are, of course, capable of having more added to increase compression, or some planed off to decrease it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    changed conditions; considerable army; considerable distances; considerable extent; considerable force; considerable loss; considerable measure; considerable part; considerable pause; considerable portion; considerable proportion; considerable quantity; considerable size; considerable space; considerable sum; considerable variation; dollar gold; either flank; great crowd; internal evidence; large island; might have been expected; public economy; sympathy with; thou shalt surely die; used instead