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Example sentences for "certain depth"

  • And at a certain depth of the ocean, where light penetrates only in a slight degree, the objects that abound are nearly colourless.

  • It has been ascertained that the internal temperature of the earth increases to a certain depth, one degree in every fifty feet.

  • Although this would indicate an increase to a certain depth of about one degree in every fifty feet, yet it would appear that the rate of increase diminishes with the depth.

  • Having made an incision to a certain depth, he first counted three hundred rings of annual growth, and observed what thickness the tree had gained in that period.

  • The chief cause of this increase of intensity of colour as we ascend is, doubtless, the increased amount of light above a certain depth.

  • It has been found that after a certain depth, where the quantity of light is so reduced that a mere twilight prevails, the inhabitants of the ocean become nearly colourless.

  • The soil of these plains contains frequently, at a certain depth, and in several spots, spangles of gold, separable by washing.

  • The grand shafts for drainage and extraction are vertical, and open upon the roof side of the vein, traversing it to a certain depth.

  • If the pit be previously secured to a certain depth, the tub is made to pass within the cradling, and is lowered down with tackles till it rests fair among the soft alluvium.

  • An interesting point shown by these analyses is that nitrates almost entirely cease in cropped soils a certain depth down, but that at a still lower depth they again occur in small quantities.

  • Much stress has been laid on the importance of having the guano buried a certain depth in the soil; and many experiments have been carried out to prove how much better it acts when so applied.

  • In these experiments sewage was made to filter slowly through a certain depth of soil (the time occupied in this filtration being eight days).

  • At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible.

  • Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy lower down.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural people; certain amount; certain articles; certain branches; certain districts; certain forms; certain general; certain manner; certain members; certain natural; certain occasions; certain other; certain parts; certain percentage; certain portions; certain position; certain quantity; certain races; certain regions; certain sense; certain specified; certain state; certain substances; certainly would; night they; said soberly