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Example sentences for "nearly equal"

  • Internodes distinctly longer than broad; branchlets flattened, of nearly equal color on both sides; leaves eglandular.

  • When two commingled breeds exist at first in nearly equal numbers, the whole will sooner or later become intimately blended, but not so soon, both breeds being equally favoured in all respects, as might have been expected.

  • The breadth of the corona, measured from the circumference of the moon, appeared to me to be nearly equal to half the moon's diameter.

  • They keep the stomach properly distended, the appetite and general health good; and they render their winter forage nearly equal to their summer feed.

  • The quantity produced is nearly equal to that of the Merino flocks when well kept, varying, according to the size and style of breeding, from 3 to 4 lbs.

  • The tax of nursing is nearly equal to that of gestation, and farther injury to the dam may be avoided by this practice.

  • To produce such an effect, it is sufficient that one of the two compounding substances have to the third body a Relation equal, or nearly equal, to that which it has to the other compounding substance with which it is already combined.

  • Defn: A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear.

  • Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent.

  • Or nearly equal weights of the chlorine and the base; indicating a surprising degree of excellence in the preparation.

  • The Kaolins in general appear to consist of alumina and silica in nearly equal proportions.

  • When many flues are conducted into one chimney stalk, the area of the latter should be nearly equal to the sum of the areas of the former, or at least of as many of them as shall be going simultaneously.

  • Differently from what occurs in the following closely allied genus, Sethia, the stamens are of nearly equal length in the flowers of the same form.

  • In two flowers of nearly equal size, the pistil of the long-styled form was twice as long as that of the short-styled; but in other cases the difference was not nearly so great.

  • In the present species of Cordia, the stamens of both forms are of nearly equal length, those of the short-styled being rather the longest; and the anthers of both are seated in the mouth of the corolla.

  • Abietum), is another species, the fur of which is nearly equal to that of the Sable, though it is much cheaper.

  • The colour is a greenish bronze, speckled with brown, and of a yellowish green underneath: six rows of nearly equal-sized plates run along the back.

  • In this view of the matter, and taking the hilly country only into account, the proportion of unavailable and of pastoral land may be nearly equal; but that of the better description will still, I think, fall short of the other two.

  • The advantages indeed of the Australian colonies must be nearly equal, from the fact that the pursuits of their respective inhabitants are so nearly the same.

  • Their decision had a serious effect in fixing the rule that all battles, at any rate against enemies of equal or nearly equal numbers, were to be fought on one pattern.

  • Fore feet with two or three of the middle toes of nearly equal size, and provided with strong, sharp, slightly curved claws, the other toes rudimentary.

  • Symmetry, or the balance of parts or masses in nearly equal opposition, is one of the conditions of treatment under the law of Repetition.

  • In the Coblentz, however, you cannot have much difficulty in seeing how the boats on one side of the tower and the figures on the other are set in nearly equal balance; the tower, as a central mass, uniting both.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brown study; certain substances; general references; hearty cheer; least twice; nearly allied; nearly black; nearly circular; nearly done; nearly every; nearly level; nearly obsolete; nearly perfect; nearly pure; nearly sessile; nearly smooth; nearly square; nearly the same manner; nearly twice; nearly uniform; offensive operations; over each; take part; the beginning; voluntary attention; whole lifetime