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Example sentences for "smaller quantity"

  • The following proportions in the foundation sauces are sufficient for a large dinner; but of course where so much is not required, a quarter, or even a smaller quantity can be made.

  • Beef may also be used for the above, and the vegetables cut in any of the shapes directed for the soups in the other department of this work; if you only require a smaller quantity, take only three pounds, or diminish all in proportion.

  • If the ore is very rich, a smaller quantity (0.

  • But with a smaller quantity, extra precautions must be taken.

  • It is present in larger or smaller quantity in most silicates; and the minerals, serpentine, talc, steatite and meerschaum are essentially hydrated silicates of magnesia.

  • Pour fresh water, but in a smaller quantity, on the mass left after trituration with the machine.

  • All Neutral Salts are soluble in water; but more or less readily, and in a greater or smaller quantity, according to the nature of their component principles.

  • Of course a smaller quantity of this punch may be made, by observing only the above proportions.

  • A smaller quantity may of course be made of equal proportions.

  • Make a very light dough as for bread, only in a smaller quantity.

  • Hence it appears, that as the muscles consist of larger fibres intermixed with a smaller quantity of nervous medulla, the organ of vision consists of a greater quantity of nervous medulla intermixed with smaller fibres.

  • Hence, when this is very large the urine is pale, and even almost colorless, but it may still contain considerable amounts of sugar and possess a decided color, quite as deep as that of urine passed in smaller quantity.

  • Therefore, both my weights and Biedert's show that infants under the age of two months assimilate a smaller quantity of milk than is usually supposed.

  • The generation of a smaller quantity of gas would suffice for the purpose here in view.

  • We shall probably find that as the body becomes accustomed to simpler food, a smaller quantity of the food is necessary.

  • It is probable that a smaller quantity of proteid would have been enough if the fat and carbohydrates had been increased.

  • Those who live on uncooked food contend that a smaller quantity of nourishment is required.

  • For the first experiment, in making these maccaroons, it may be well to try a smaller quantity.

  • Orange-rind being stronger and more powerful in taste than that of lemon, a smaller quantity of it will suffice.

  • They would fall, because a less quantity of labour was necessary to their production, and would therefore exchange for a smaller quantity of those things in which no such abridgment of labour had been made.

  • It is undoubtedly true, that in the case of a deficient supply, a smaller quantity will be shared among the same number of consumers, and a smaller portion will fall to each.

  • These improvements absolutely enable us to obtain the same produce from a smaller quantity of land.

  • In this way the blende, which always accompanies galena in a greater or smaller quantity, is well separated.

  • This pure oxide, properly employed by itself, furnishes a red which vies with the finest carmine, and by its means every tint may be obtained from red to orange, by adding a greater or smaller quantity of peroxide of iron.

  • It has been proposed to substitute bismuth for lead in assaying silver, as a smaller quantity of it answers the purpose, and, as its oxide is more fluent, can therefore penetrate the cupel more readily, and give a more rapid result.

  • But to make unchangeable alkaline glass, especially with potash, a smaller quantity of this than the above should be used, with a very violent heat.

  • He purchases them sometimes with a greater, and sometimes with a smaller quantity of goods, and to him the price of labour seems to vary like that of all other things.

  • Every other commodity, however, will, at any particular time, purchase a greater or smaller quantity of labour, in proportion to the quantity of subsistence which it can purchase at that time.

  • Of these, indeed, it may sometimes purchase a greater and sometimes a smaller quantity; but it is their value which varies, not that of the labour which purchases them.

  • Its chief action is certainly by destroying the organic matters, and by thus improving the physical character of the peat, and causing it to absorb and retain a smaller quantity of water than it naturally does.

  • The food must necessarily be distributed in smaller quantities, and consequently a day's labour will purchase a smaller quantity of provisions.

  • An orange hue of red is the standard red mixed with a smaller quantity of orange.

  • The hue of a given color is that color with the admixture of a smaller quantity of another color.

  • A hue of a color is defined as the result of the admixture of that color with a smaller quantity of another color; thus a hue of red approaching the orange is an orange hue of red, or an orange-red.

  • The full weight sovereigns would be reconverted into bullion, a form in which a greater quantity of gold is always worth more than a smaller quantity.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smaller quantity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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