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Example sentences for "proper amount"

  • In these cases the most important feature of any treatment is to secure a proper amount of air.

  • A proper amount of sleep is therefore as great or even a greater necessity than a proper supply of food; and any one failing to obtain it soon perishes of exhaustion.

  • As his starting point Dr Tanner enjoins the practice of taking a proper amount of exercise daily.

  • During sickness a patient, if in a very helpless and enfeebled state, may often be exposed whilst asleep to great peril, unless the nurse who attends him exercises intelligence and a proper amount of vigilance.

  • Winter air heated to a summer temperature is dry and parched, whereas natural summer air contains the proper amount of moisture.

  • Printing-color cannot adhere to the stone so long as a proper amount of moisture forms a wall between it and the stone.

  • This color consists of a thin varnish in which a portion of litharge of silver or mennig or white lead has been dissolved thoroughly over the fire, and a proper amount of lampblack added.

  • Limbs enfeebled in this way will not recover their size, tone, and strength, until the bandages are removed, and a proper amount of exercise taken.

  • The food that is well masticated, and has blended with it a proper amount of saliva, will induce a healthy action in the stomach.

  • This is shown by the increased redness of the skin, and a feeling of warmth and comfort, after a proper amount of friction.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    equal height; express herself; given him; insulating material; proper amount; proper division; proper manner; proper mode; proper motion; proper motions; proper name; proper names; proper noun; proper object; proper person; proper place; proper quantity; proper thickness; properly made; rubbed through; select committee; short pause; speak well; thou seemest; usually called; whither shall