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Example sentences for "sufficient number"

  • Having offered a sufficient number of apologies for the error, he of the tall figure in turn introduced his cousin Flora and her friend Rose to the major.

  • The blue stone, known by the name of Indigo, is the extract of a plant which they who have a sufficient number of slaves to manage it, make some quantities throughout all this colony.

  • There are lodgings in it for the officers and the garrison; and a sufficient number of guns for defending the entrance of the Missisippi.

  • And this was rendered more certain, because government had not sent a sufficient number of troops to keep the populace of Boston in awe.

  • They provided, with the assistance of the provincials, a sufficient number of sheep and oxen, and invited the Huns to a splendid, or at least, a plentiful supper.

  • A sufficient number of Latin or Celtic words might be assumed by the Germans, to express their new wants and ideas; but those illiterate Pagans preserved and established the use of their national dialect.

  • In these two latter respects my observations may be trusted, but a sufficient number of capsules were counted only in a few instances.

  • A boat was sent to fish with hook and line, and had some success; and at dusk a sufficient number of sooty petrels were taken from the burrows to give nine to every man, making, with those before caught, more than twelve hundred birds.

  • A sufficient number of prisoners having received permission to assist in this duty, they entered the boat accompanied by a guard of soldiers, and put off from the ship.

  • When a sufficient number of Whig prisoners were collected there they would be marched under guard to a prison ship.

  • I then considered, that I had not yet a sufficient number of friends to support me.

  • They had lands without a sufficient number of labourers, and families without a sufficient number of servants, for their work.

  • As soon as a sufficient number of hands are collected on board the ship which is fitting out, all the spars, except the spare ones, may be got off to the hulk.

  • But the Americans had not made a sufficient number of prisoners to relieve all their citizens, and many of them still remained in confinement.

  • The utmost efforts were made by the Commander-in-chief to collect a sufficient number of troops to enable him to give a decisive blow to some one of the positions of his enemy.

  • Consequently, as some time must elapse before a sufficient number of vessels for the transportation of his army could be collected, its embarkation might be delayed until the ensuing spring.

  • Serious trouble threatens us if we can not do better than we are now doing as regards securing the services of a sufficient number of the highest type of sailormen, of sea mechanics.

  • When a sufficient number of these articles had been completed by the united efforts of ladies for miles around, a meeting was held at one of the churches, where all helped to pack boxes to be sent to "the front.

  • He had no difficulty in getting the men, a sufficient number volunteering at once from the battalion, but he encountered other most disheartening obstacles.

  • To them is granted the privilege, as proxies of the Grand Master, of making Masons; and for this purpose they are authorized to congregate a sufficient number of Brethren to assist them in the ceremonies.

  • Lord Cornwallis, acting as Pitt's agent, confessed with shame that he bought up a sufficient number of members of the Irish Parliament to secure a vote in favor of union with Great Britain.

  • If the Tory Lords would not pass the bill, the King had the power to create a sufficient number of new Whig Lords who would.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    annual meeting; being just; compound tincture; earthquake shocks; emigrants from; foot high; full thousand; letter from; male and; poor body; present participle; seventeenth century; sufficient amount; sufficient answer; sufficient evidence; sufficient force; sufficient importance; sufficient length; sufficient number; sufficient quantities; sufficient quantity; sufficient size; sufficient strength; sufficient water; sufficiently done; this wise