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Example sentences for "considerable degree"

  • As this takes place in each successive distillation, if we make use of large vessels and a considerable degree of heat, we at last decompose the whole of the oil, and change it entirely into water and charcoal.

  • A preference for older men, or else a considerable degree of indifference to age alone, is more common, and perhaps indicates a deeper degree of perversion.

  • Four cases are morbid to a considerable degree; the remaining case has had insane delusions which required treatment in an asylum.

  • These circumstances probably account for the great amount of mystery which has been, and still is to a considerable degree, attached to fur dyeing, and also explains the opprobrium and distrust with which fur dyers were formerly regarded.

  • The effectiveness of the fermentation processes depends to a considerable degree on the action of certain bacteria and yeasts.

  • Likewise, the presence in the museums of various articles, leather and fur, of Assyrian, Phoenician and Persian origin, tends to show that these peoples also possessed a considerable degree of proficiency in tanning.

  • Young pelts have a design on them somewhat similar to broadtail lambs, or moire astrachans, but this design is lost to a considerable degree by dyeing the furs.

  • The events which accumulated about that time, and which were, he said, in a letter to Washington, of a nature to render the continuance of peace in a considerable degree precarious, deferred his meditated retreat.

  • Jefferson expressed himself as follows: "When you first mentioned to me your purpose of retiring from the government, though I felt all the magnitude of the event, I was in a considerable degree silent.

  • To a distinguished reputation in the line of his profession, this gentleman added a considerable degree of political eminence.

  • Their sculptures show a considerable degree of progress.

  • The Mound Builders had attained a considerable degree of civilization; they were able to form, in the construction of their works, perfect circles and perfect squares of great accuracy, carried over the varying surface of the country.

  • But even reason, in its present state, is so degraded, that the wonders of creative wisdom are, in a considerable degree, overlooked or undervalued.

  • It is evident she attached a considerable degree of credibility to the representations she had received; and relying no longer upon subordinate means of information, she resolved upon a course of diligent inquiry.

  • These causes of mutual complaint being permitted to rankle for some time in the bosoms of both nations, produced a considerable degree of irritation.

  • While the two armies continued to watch each other, occasional enterprises were undertaken by detachments, in some of which a considerable degree of merit was displayed.

  • Psychological warfare can be relied upon to a considerable degree to step up enemy panic in the application of a rapid forward movement.

  • But most of the countries of the world suffer from a considerable degree of ideological confusion--of instability of basic beliefs--without having any immediate remedy at hand, or even seeking one.

  • The British and the Japanese achieved a considerable degree of unification.

  • Modern writers agree in ascribing to the Touaricks, a people inhabiting the Desert of Sahara, a considerable degree of civilization.

  • In the second place, even after they have occurred and developed to a considerable degree, they can be removed by a trifling and almost painless operation, and, if taken early enough, all their injurious effects overcome.

  • That," rejoined Fitzroy, "is already in a considerable degree effected.

  • It is a neat building, and shews a good front to the road; is fitted up with a considerable degree of elegance, and is a very convenient theatre.

  • The following interesting narrative is an abridged copy of what appeared in the Liverpool Mercury, at the time when her astonishing powers excited a considerable degree of public attention.

  • Although blind persons have occasion, in a variety of respects, to deplore their infelicity, their misery is in a considerable degree alleviated by advantages peculiar to themselves.

  • This strange affection or complaint, which is more generally known by the term Nightmare, than by that of Incubus, has obtained a considerable degree of notice in the world, from the singular manner in which it seizes its victims.

  • While the interests of the people were neglected and forgotten, the attention of the premier was in a considerable degree engrossed by the petty arrangements of office.

  • This will demand a considerable degree of alertness and agility.

  • I profess the same science, and I pretend only to have carried to much greater heights an art to which he has given a considerable degree of perfection.

  • By the quick evaporation of aether a considerable degree of cold may be procured; and on this principle it has sometimes been applied to relieve the head-ach and other pains.

  • Mild or sweet oil is expressed from the grains or kernels of vegetables, and requires a considerable degree of heat to convert it into vapour, in which state alone it is capable of being inflamed.

  • From the manner in which the lines are indented in the paper, in several of the cuts, it is evident that they must either have been subjected to a considerable degree of pressure or have been very hard rubbed.

  • It bears a considerable degree of resemblance to the mark given at page 62, from an edition of the Apocalypse.

  • Although some of the figures bear a considerable degree of likeness to others of the same kind in the Biblia Pauperum, I cannot think that the designs for both books were made by the same person.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable amount; considerable body; considerable depth; considerable difference; considerable distance; considerable distances; considerable increase; considerable length; considerable majority; considerable share; considerable size; considerable sum; considerable thickness; considerable time; considerable town; considerable trade; considerable value; considerable variation; distance equal; during winter; find her; good husband; her name; inside the; partial eclipse; watering places