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Example sentences for "certain size"

  • Most frequently, they remain stationary, after having attained a certain size, and are productive of little inconvenience, the surrounding parts having accommodated themselves to the new formation.

  • After having attained a certain size it often becomes stationary; but very frequently it continues to enlarge gradually.

  • Illustration] In some cases, a tube of a certain size must be worn during the remainder of life; and it does not generally cause much inconvenience.

  • The act of bringing anything to a certain size.

  • In this case the whole organism, with all its organs, falls into two equal halves as soon as by growth it has attained a certain size.

  • The movable jaw is adjustable and can be set to crush stones to a certain size.

  • The jug and the pot was one favourite water mark in that century, succeeded by a fool's cap, which name has since adhered to paper of a certain size, with or without the cap.

  • To find length of throw needed to obtain a certain size of picture: Multiply required picture dimension by focal length of lens and divide by slide or film dimension.

  • To find slide size necessary to produce a certain size of picture under fixed conditions: Multiply focal length of lens by size of picture and divide by length of throw.

  • With a given system there will thus be a certain size of spot which gives the best results obtainable.

  • The bacteria multiply, like the chromacea, by simple segmentation; as soon as the structureless plasma-granule has reached a certain size by simple growth, it is constricted and splits into two halves.

  • In one experiment the oral disk of a Cerianthus was cut off; very soon new tentacles began to grow at the top, and after having reached a certain size, an incision was made in the animal.

  • A spherical mass of cells is formed which become transparent and which will cease to grow as soon as they reach a certain size.

  • These facts show that the growth of an organ comes to a standstill when a certain size is reached or a certain number of cells are formed.

  • Because a certain size is the most favourable for a certain plan of organization, the process of natural selection determined that such a size should be within certain variable limits, characteristic of each species.

  • Each individual grows to a certain size, and then divides into two parts, which are exactly alike in size and structure, so that it is impossible to decide whether one of them is younger or older than the other.

  • Such nuclei cannot control the whole cell-body and force it to divide, but each one of them, having grown to a certain size at the expense of the cell-body, makes its influence felt over a certain area.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain destruction; certain diseases; certain distances; certain general; certain individuals; certain lines; certain localities; certain person; certain plants; certain rate; certain rules; certain school; certain sort; certain special; certain species; certain spot; certain standard; certain temperature; certain time; certain value; certain weight; certainly very; certainly would; puir thing; said once; sakes alive