It represents a certain sum of contingency entering into the world, that is to say, a certain quantity of possible action--a quantity variable with individuals and especially with species.
Brandy also contains a certain quantity of free acid, which increases with age, furfural, which decreases, and small quantities of other matters of which we have as yet little knowledge.
Brandy is stored in specially selected oak casks, from which it extracts a certain quantity of colouring matter and tannin, &c.
Many plants endure severe frost, but cannot ripen their seeds without a certain intensity of summer heat and a certain quantity of light; others cannot endure a similar intensity either of heat or cold.
A certain quantity of heat will make some bodies good conductors, that will not otherwise conduct.
Still, important as it was to economize the gas, the excessive lowness of the surrounding temperature obliged them to consume a certain quantity.
They necessarily consumed a certain quantity of gas, for they were obliged to keep the producing substance at a temperature of above 400..
A guinea-- said Adam Smith-- may be considered as a bill for a certain quantity of necessaries and conveniences upon all the tradesmen in the neighborhood.
Adam Smith says: A guinea may be considered as a bill for a certain quantity of necessaries and conveniences upon all the tradesmen in the neighborhood.
No doubt, a certain amount of difficulties being given, it is fortunate that a certain quantity of labour also given should [p326] surmount as many of these difficulties as possible.
Or this: Given on the one hand a certain quantity of clay, and on the other a potter, what should the potter do in order to turn that clay to the best account?
It requires a certain quantity of heat to take you to the sideboard; and exactly the same quantity to bring you back again.
The process, which is patented in Paris, is described as follows: Chloride of platinum is dissolved in water, and a certain quantity of oil of lavender is added to the solution.
Then we are told how many baskets of fruit they carried away, and what distribution there was of sweetmeats at the end, every one taking a certain quantity.
The amount of this excess of sugar is greater in proportion to the strength of the wort, since a certain quantity of alcohol, already formed, prevents the operation of the ferment on the remaining wort.
It will be found on trial that 20 barrels of wort drawn from a certain quantity of malt, by two successive mashings, will not be so rich in fermentable matter as 20 barrels extracted by ten successive sparges of two barrels each.
The gluten suffers a change at the same time, and becomes acescent, so that only a certain quantity of starch can be thus converted by a quantity of gluten.
The promise of a certain quantity of his beloved liquor, coupled with the prospect of an evening's drunkenness, speedily got the better of his reluctance.
It is given to you in profusion; the moment your cup is empty, a silent attendant fills it, and your host will not permit you to mention the subject of your visit till you have drunk a certain quantity.
A certain quantity of water must be given with every diuretic dose, and the larger the quantity the greater will be the effect produced.
It is also likely that a certain quantity would be sufficient to exhaust for a time the acid gastric secretion.
We find too that when a certain quantity of a saline is administered, too great to pass off readily by the kidneys, it prefers to act on the bowels.
But it is not right that there should be more than a certain quantity of this acid in the system.
Like the Emulsine in the production of Hydrocyanic acid out of the material of the bitter almond, they must be present in certain quantity, or they are quite inoperative.
The small Islands which lie about a League to the Westward of this pays Annually a Certain quantity of Arica Nutts, which is almost the only produce of that Island.
Serfs were required to perform certain tasks on the lands of their master and to pay him a certain quantity of the produce of their own.
Every country, he says, needs a certain quantity of money to carry on trade.
If the labourer's wages at the former period, were a certain quantity of food and necessaries, he probably could not have subsisted if that quantity had been reduced.
Suppose too, that this machine, without any labour whatever, could produce a certain quantity of commodities annually, and that profits were 10 per cent.
Lime made according to the common mode, and put upon the tongue, even before slacked by air or water, has a savour which indicates the presence of a certain quantity of alkali.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain quantity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
