This arranged, he was about to sail away, when the leaders of the commons induced him to leave them five of his ships to make their adversaries less disposed to move, while they manned and sent with him an equal number of their own.
The Athenians first sailed against them with an equal number, drawing off towards the open sea.
An equal numberof Jimmu's soldiers acted as hosts, and, at a given signal, when the guests were all drunk, they were slaughtered.
The record says that these men, who, with the exception of the Chinese doctor of literature, were all Koreans, took the place of an equal number of their countrymen who had resided in Japan for some years.
An equal number of Kami, all having sway over mountains, are born from the head and body of the slaughtered child.
It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings.
Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.
Defn: Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
You held the jargon, that notwithstanding each state had an equal number of votes in the Senate; yet the states were unequally represented in the Senate.
All failed, and many of them now see that Legislatures, like juries, should be composed of an equal number of men and women to secure exact justice for both.
This university, the State Agricultural College and the State Normal College average an equal number of men and women graduates.
Drawn up nearby were half a dozen Red Cross ambulances, an equal number of closed cars and several large trucks for carrying medical supplies.
In a later automobile Mrs. Clark had with her half a dozen Red Cross nurses, and in a second Miss Blackstone, the former superintendent of the hospital, an equal number.
Lawrence, whose ship mounted an equal number of guns, was exceedingly anxious to engage with this vessel.
Admiral Saunders commanded the fleet, which comprised twenty-two line-of-battle ships, and an equal number of frigates.
And behind, out of sight, there were a hundred flat dishes of silver, and an equal number of lavers.
Yet it is a common impression that, one night with another, in the course of a year, a player will have dealt to him about an equal number of good and bad hands.
But experience shows us that in six successive draws the same ball may come out twice or even three or four times, although when thousands of drawings are made each comes out nearly an equal number of times.
Such a form of armature would be unsuitable for large dynamos, which accordingly have a number of coils wound over their drums, at equal distances round the circumference, and a commutator divided into an equal number of segments.
To effect this a distributer is used to put a number of transmitters at one end of the line in communication with an equal number of receivers at the other end, fed by a second distributer keeping perfect time with the first.
Miss Perrin investigated 1,550 pairs of fathers and sons in the English Dictionary of National Biography and an equal number in the English Who's Who.
The method adopted would be to write the names of an equal number of men and women officially condemned to matrimony on cards, and to place those for men in one lottery wheel and those for women in another.
And as both wheels have moved through an equal number of degrees of angle their velocity ratio or proportion of velocity has been equal.
The king had once before taken part in the city sports, and with ten of the citizens had held his own against an equal number of knights.
They say that the king himself will adjudge the prizes, and there is to be a grand assault-at-arms between ten of the 'prentices with a captain, and an equal number of sons of nobles and knights.
The ten champions on either side will fight as knights; you will have a hundred apprentices as men-at-arms, and the court party will have an equal number of young esquires.
For large numbers there may be two or more runners and an equal number of chasers, or the players may be divided into smaller groups.
The players are divided into two parties of equal number.
Each of the players is provided with an equal number of clam shells; the players then pair off in twos for the combat.
Illustration diagram: ARCH BALL] The players line up in two or more single files, which compete with each other, and must therefore contain an equal number of players.
This may be played in the class room by having an equal number of pupils in each row of seats.
Through these, which are parallel, there are transverse avenues to the river opened through the wall and breast-work, and secured by an equal number of little gates of brass.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equal number" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
