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Example sentences for "considerable depth"

  • All the Anthericums named by me will do in ordinary soil, but prefer a fat loam of considerable depth.

  • They are in the lower regions often decomposed to a considerable depth, the spheroidal structure being well displayed during the weathering process.

  • This is especially the case in the extensive scantily vegetated “talasinga” regions where the basaltic rocks are disintegrating for a considerable depth.

  • If this deposit is driven forward by powerful currents, it sometimes rises to the surface, and disturbs the mariner by the sudden appearance of shoals where the charts lead him to expect a considerable depth of water.

  • These are characteristic of the North Pacific, in which they drop to a considerable depth.

  • Species of Hoplostethus, notably Hoplostethus mediterraneus, are found in most seas at a considerable depth.

  • Still others are lake fishes, approaching the shore or entering brooks in the spawning season, at other times retiring to waters of considerable depth.

  • After passing through many hundred feet of London clay, proved by its fossils to have been deposited in salt water of considerable depth, we arrive at beds of fluviatile origin.

  • The general outline of these regions is that of flat and level platforms, interrupted by valleys often of considerable depth, and ramifying in various directions.

  • The channel which separates it from the main land is of considerable depth, and 25 miles broad.

  • All the appearances concur in leading us to conclude that the white chalk was the product of an open sea of considerable depth.

  • If you are on river flats with an alluvial soil, rather loose to a considerable depth, dynamiting is not necessary.

  • Common experience is that Bermuda will hold on unless you have hard freezing of the ground to a considerable depth, as they have in the northern States.

  • These ice-houses have a pit dug in the ground to a considerable depth, and are covered over with a high conical roof of mud.

  • There seems to have been a great space intervening between this wall and the nearest habitations, but why that was would now be difficult to ascertain except by digging to a considerable depth.

  • In order to keep the strata pure, and uncontaminated with mineral springs, the hole is cased, for a considerable depth, with a metallic pipe, about a quarter of an inch smaller than the bore.

  • These stakes were charred to a considerable depth, had retained their form completely, and were firm at the heart.

  • An incision is made wide around the wart or ulcer, and the included parts are dissected away to a considerable depth.

  • In order to discover the foreign body, probes will sometimes be required; the finger often answers the purpose best, unless when the wound is of considerable depth.

  • Even through a considerable depth of soft parts, the impulse of the fluid in the bowel is distinctly felt during exertion of the abdominal muscles.

  • The presence of this latter coin seems an anomaly; but no doubt it was dropped on the ground during the last century, and since then there has been ample time for its burial under a considerable depth of the castings of worms.

  • The season was not favourable for the full activity of worms, and the weather had lately been hot and dry, so that most of the worms now lived at a considerable depth.

  • This sand had been dug up from a considerable depth, and was of so poor a nature that weeds could not grow on it.

  • Added to this, the subsoil plow, which will be the follower of drainage, will break up the soil to considerable depth, and thus make it more permeable to moisture.

  • The river Lundu disembogues itself into the bay just beyond the point of the same name; and the land on its far bank forms a bight of considerable depth.

  • A small river discharges itself, in the northern part, inside the anchorage: there is a considerable depth within, but the bar is shallow.

  • Our pilots inform me at the same time, however, that within the bar there is considerable depth of water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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