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Example sentences for "about fourteen"

  • When fully developed, the entire diameter of the plant is about fourteen inches, and its weight sixteen ounces.

  • The extreme diameter of the entire plant, when well grown, is about fourteen inches, and its weight nearly twenty-four ounces.

  • When in its greatest perfection, the extreme diameter of the whole plant is about fourteen inches, and its weight twelve or fourteen ounces.

  • The diameter of a well-grown plant is about fourteen inches, and its weight nearly a pound; seeds black.

  • The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

  • If so, John Wright would then be about fourteen years of age.

  • Pores subregular, circular, three times as broad as the bars; about fourteen on the half meridian.

  • Pores regular, circular, three times as broad as the bars; about fourteen on the half meridian.

  • Shell thick walled, combed, about fourteen times as broad as one mesh.

  • Pores irregular, roundish, twice to four times as broad as the bars; about fourteen on the half meridian.

  • The salient points may be thus summarized: A period of incubation of about fourteen days--i.

  • In about fourteen days an outbreak of fever took place in all the houses.

  • The two first named are plainly shown in the drawings, and as will be noted, that of the wild cat is the smallest, and will measure about two inches in diameter with a step of about fourteen inches.

  • The foxes make the smallest tracks, that of the red fox being about two or two and a fourth inches in length and the length of step is about fourteen inches.

  • Another good ice method is as follows: Find the proper depth of water, about fourteen inches, and make a pen of dead sticks arranging them in the form of a half-circle.

  • The same engine continued in good working order in the year 1846, when it headed the railway procession on the opening of the Middlesborough and Redcar Railway, traveling at the rate of about fourteen miles an hour.

  • It traveled at the average speed of about fourteen miles an hour, with its load attached; but at the eighth trip the cold-water pump got wrong, and the engine could proceed no farther.

  • Great, therefore, was his joy when, at about fourteen years of age, he was appointed assistant fireman, at the wage of a shilling a day.

  • After a sojourn of about fourteen days at Seville, I departed for Cordova.

  • I paid little attention to his discourse, for I was looking at a Maragato lad of about fourteen, who served in the house as a kind of ostler.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about dark; about eighteen; about eighty; about five; about forty; about four; about his; about midnight; about nine; about seventy; about sixteen; about some; about the same date; about then; about thirty; about twenty; about two hundred yards; about what; common humanity; honest friend; inner light; lips were; little puzzled; render assistance; staid till; when planted