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Example sentences for "considerable quantities"

  • Diamonds are found in considerable quantities in several localities, especially in South Africa, the East Indies, and Brazil.

  • It is used in considerable quantities as a source of acetylene gas for illuminating purposes.

  • Soft or bituminous coal contains, in addition to large amounts of carbon, considerable quantities of compounds of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulphur.

  • Further, we know from observations made by different investigators that both leucin and tyrosin may be formed in considerable quantities in trypsin-proteolysis as it occurs in the living intestine.

  • Considerable quantities of aluminium are obtained from the kaolin deposits in the vicinity.

  • On the coast the people gain their living in great measure from the fisheries, tunny and sardines being caught in considerable quantities.

  • Antimony is obtained in considerable quantities at Shah-Maksud, about 30 m.

  • The barilla plant is also very common; it is collected and burnt, and the ashes exported in considerable quantities.

  • Next to these grand objects of commerce were ostrich feathers, skins, and hides in considerable quantities.

  • Besides its use of being masticated in Barbary, it is exported to Europe in considerable quantities, for the manufacture of glass.

  • Mexico has lands of cotton-producing adaptability, it is stated, greater than the United States; nevertheless she imports cotton therefrom in considerable quantities.

  • Aztec literature of this nature existed in considerable quantities at the beginning of the Hispanic occupation.

  • The town is also the centre of the tallow trade with Warsaw; considerable quantities of timber are floated down to this place.

  • Fibrinous inflammations are characterized by the presence in the exudation of considerable quantities of fibrin.

  • Such a distinction is especially called for when the inflammatory or non-inflammatory origin of considerable quantities of fluid in the larger cavities of the body is concerned.

  • Women and others unaccustomed to the use of alcoholic drinks often take wine and brandy in considerable quantities, with striking benefit and without flushing or other evidences of its disagreeing.

  • German cloths and linens, and printed cottons from the Rhine, were at one period introduced in considerable quantities.

  • Water was found in considerable quantities a few meters below the surface, practically at the level of the river, that is, 570 m.

  • Wine is made in considerable quantities in the principal vine-growing districts, and in several localities large vineyards have been planted for this purpose.

  • The cold and damp of the climate in these districts are great obstacles to the cultivation of wheat, but rye and buckwheat are grown in considerable quantities, and in natural pasture Cantal is extremely rich.

  • Buckwheat flour is used in considerable quantities in some districts for the making of buckwheat cakes, eaten with maple syrup.

  • Considerable quantities of iodine are now obtained from the mother-liquor of Chilian saltpetre or nitre (nitrate of soda).

  • Hozeau has invented an apparatus which he calls an 'ozoniser,' by means of which ozone is produced in considerable quantities.

  • All these substances should be taken in considerable quantities; the dose should be frequently repeated, and the general treatment similar to that in cases of poisoning by arsenic.

  • Oil is sometimes used as a remedy, being given in considerable quantities, which are increased or diminished according to the quality of the oil.

  • Oil was poured down its throat in considerable quantities, but to no purpose.

  • Sometimes it is buried in considerable quantities in the earth, and then they contrive to inflame it, and to escape in time.

  • Considerable quantities of white pine grow on the upper Mississippi, along the western shore of Michigan, about Green bay, and along the shores of lake Superior.

  • Iron ore has been found in the southern parts of the State, and is said to exist in considerable quantities in the northern parts.

  • Considerable quantities of salt are manufactured in Jackson, Gallatin and Vermillion counties, Illinois.

  • Considerable quantities of limestone on the surface; a remarkable spring near Delphi,--the water reddish.


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