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Example sentences for "about equal"

  • His complexion was ruddy, his eyes blue, and the lines of his mouth indicated good- humor and firmness in about equal proportions.

  • Fernando Wood headed, in opposition to them, the party of settlement and peace, his followers being composed in about equal parts of Republicans and of ex-Confederates who turned their backs on the Democratic filibusters.

  • Culmen shorter than middle toe with claw, about equal to toe without claw.

  • The tail and secondaries are glossed with green and blue in about equal proportions.

  • A blue pigment, termed mineral blue, consists of about equal parts of arsenite of copper and potash, and should contain 38.

  • Belladonna liniment is an alcoholic extract with the addition of camphor; its strength is about equal to 0.

  • The strychnine and brucine are in about equal proportions, Dragendorff[424] finding 1.

  • Yet, I have united two families of about equal numbers in the fall and spring, and, with a few exceptions, have had no difficulty.

  • The difficulty is, to know when there are enough to be about equal, to what belongs to the weak stock; if too few are enclosed, they are surely destroyed.

  • First, the present consumption of cotton, by our manufactories, is about equal to one-sixth of our whole production.

  • In Accomac, Albemarle, York, Prince Edward, and Prince George, the negro population is about equal to the white.

  • The harness used on this road was a combination of leather and hemp in about equal proportions.

  • He has the alternative of shutting himself in his room and appearing only at meal times, but as solitude has few charms, and cabins are badly ventilated, seclusion is accompanied by ennui and headache in about equal proportions.

  • The room was rather bare of furniture, and the decorations on the walls were Russian and Chinese in about equal proportion.

  • It is about equal to Indian corn for bread.

  • This arrangement is about equal, in a warm climate, to cold graperies at the north.

  • When working so as to obtain strong chlorine and weak chlorine in about equal proportions, the quantity of the liquor to be boiled down per ton of total bleaching powder made was about 105 cubic feet.

  • The natural colour which the spirit receives from the cask, however long it may be kept in it, never exceeds a light amber tint, about equal to that of pale Jamaica rum.

  • The stipe is about equal to the expanded capillitium, unusually long.

  • Females are of about equal size; in relation to other dimensions, braincase shallower and mastoid and zygomatic breadths less.

  • Length of hind foot more or less than (about equal to) basal length.

  • He is about equal to the sun in density, and about one-fourth as dense as the earth.

  • The distance between them is about equal to one-third of the diameter of the moon as measured from the earth.

  • Neptune is about equal to an eighth-magnitude star in brightness, and can never be seen without the aid of a telescope.

  • Imagine the present performance heaped up--only relieved by caterwauls of about equal quality--and that from 6 A.

  • There are two ring-plains of about equal size on the floor, one on the N.

  • Basal and mitral gates of about equal size.

  • Numerous (sixteen to twenty or more) radial spines of about equal size, arising from a common central point and diverging in different directions, richly and more or less irregularly branched.

  • Galear and thoracal bows simple, armed with scattered simple spines of about equal size, smaller than the smooth frontal bows between them.

  • Basal and mitral gates of the shell of about equal size, roundish.

  • Skull broad and depressed; with the rostrum and cranial portions about equal in length.

  • Length of the bodies of the lumbar and anterior caudal vertebrae about equal to their width.

  • The actual surface visible at any one time is about equal to North America.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about business; about dark; about eighteen; about equal; about fifteen; about fifty; about sixty; about south; about the same date; about the same period; about them; about then; about this; about twelve; about two; about two inches long; came into; catch them; continue their; gruff voice; much taken; peace were; saw one; took care; will certainly; will presently