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Example sentences for "less quantity"

  • Then, again, almost all particular powers act according to the greater or less quantity of the body.

  • They would fall, because a less quantity of labour was necessary to their production, and would therefore exchange for a smaller quantity of those things in which no such abridgment of labour had been made.

  • If with the same quantity of labour a less quantity of fish, or a greater quantity of game were obtained, the value of fish would rise in comparison with that of game.

  • If, on the contrary, with the same quantity of labour a less quantity of game, or a greater quantity of fish was obtained, game would rise in comparison with fish.

  • It would appear, therefore, that the blood obtains its red colour during its passage through the lungs, and becomes deprived of it during its circulation through the rest of the body.

  • Lay bare a portion of a great nerve leading to any muscle or limb of an animal, for instance, the leg of a frog separated from the body.

  • It is here that it undergoes the change, which is particularly termed digestion.

  • This will illustrate the nature of sleep.

  • In summer, on the contrary, the air being rarefied by the heat, a less quantity of oxygen will be received by the lungs during each inspiration, and consequently the heat which is extricated must be less.

  • At birth pigment is found in the body in less quantity than in the adult state.

  • Malpighi's layer situated beneath it, with granules of pigment in more or less quantity in its lower range of cells (Fig.

  • The colouring of the hair depends not only on the pigment, but on the more or less quantity of air in the medulla of the hair, which blends the white and grey tones with the general tint given by the pigment.

  • The new deposit is of extremely dense consistence, and is effused in greater or less quantity, according to the degree of curvature.

  • Along with these appearances, serum is generally found effused, in a greater or less quantity, into the cellular tissue exterior to the ligamentous covering.

  • The 'stronger mercurial ointment' of the shops is usually made with a less quantity of mercury than that ordered by the Colleges, and the colour is brought up with finely ground blue black or wood charcoal.

  • A less quantity is also required in winter than summer.

  • One of the most important and widely diffused of the proximate principles of vegetables being found, in greater or less quantity, in every plant.

  • To this the rennet is added, in less quantity than is commonly used for other kinds of cheese.

  • In this way a less quantity of coffee may be used, but it should be remembered that the article substituted for it does not possess in any degree the peculiar exciting, soothing, and hunger-staying properties of that valuable product.

  • The degree of heat is regulated by openings in the arch, or upon the long sides of the furnace, which lead to the chimney; as also by the greater or less quantity of air admitted below the grate, as in glass-house furnaces.

  • All volcanic rocks contain a greater or less quantity of titanic iron-ore, disseminated through them, which may be recognised by its brilliant metallic lustre, and its perfect conchoidal fracture.

  • If these mother waters contain much free sulphuric acid, from the peroxidation of their sulphate of iron, they may prove useful in dissolving a portion of the alumina of the sediment which is always present in greater or less quantity.

  • This quicker exhaustion of the spirit of animation is probably owing to a less quantity of it residing in the acting fibres, which therefore more frequently require a supply from the nerves, which belong to them.

  • The second day after the first watering, if the blade is not sufficiently grown, water again, but in less quantity, say one half.

  • I have made the scale for one barrel, in order to make it more generally useful to the community at large; however, the same proportions will answer for a greater or less quantity, only proportioning the materials and utensils.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    animal matter; coal fire; government and; less affected; less amount; less closely; less complete; less curved; less elongated; less flattened; less frequent; less frequently; less general; less importance; less marked; less number; less numerous; less severe; less then; less value; less well; less white; little onion; take pity; wild asses; world civilization