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Example sentences for "exceedingly small"

  • As a rule, the foot is exceedingly small or quite aborted.

  • Fish were now seen only in exceedingly small numbers.

  • Without manure and with an exceedingly small amount of labour expended on cultivation, man will year by year draw forth from its black soil the most abundant harvests.

  • The chemist believes oxygen, as well as all other substances, to be made up of exceedingly small particles, called atoms.

  • Life appears to be more dependent upon oxygen than upon food, simply because the supply of it in the body at any time is exceedingly small.

  • The secretions of many glands are known to contain substances that are not found in the blood, or, if present, are there in exceedingly small amounts.

  • The plugs of iron, or of iron and carbon, are separated by an exceedingly small globule of mercury, the size of which should be between one and a-half and three millimetres.

  • The relative proportions of the rarer gases present are, however, exceedingly small, and their properties correspondingly obscure.

  • Compared with the oil, the air masses offer only a slight resistance to the motion, and thus only an exceedingly small part of the pendulum's energy is transmitted to them.

  • The "capacity" must be exceedingly small in such an apparatus, but it is sufficient; while the long lines of electrical force stretching from the high antenna to the earth produce waves of great carrying power.

  • At the same time, since it is so fine, it does offer some resistance, and finally, since what heat is generated will be in an exceedingly small space, it will be appreciable there.

  • Of course the deflection is exceedingly small in amount, and as it is undesirable to hamper its movements by the weight of a mirror, no matter how small, some other means of reading the instrument had to be devised.

  • The difference, however, is exceedingly small, being only about ten seconds in a century.

  • The quantity of matter in comets is exceedingly small.

  • And how exceeding curious and subtile must the component parts of the medium that conveys light be, when we find the instrument made for its reception or refraction to be so exceedingly small?

  • As might be gathered from their extreme tenuity, comets are so exceedingly small in mass that they do not appear to exert any gravitational attraction upon the other bodies of our system.

  • The mass of the ring system, however, must be exceedingly small, for it does not appear to produce any disturbances in the movements of Saturn's satellites.

  • In response to the demand, manufacturers have succeeded in producing transformer plate in which the loss of energy due to hysteresis is exceedingly small.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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