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Example sentences for "limited number"

  • The tenth article of the treaty of 1842, one of the earliest compacts in this regard entered into by us, stipulated for surrender in respect of a limited number of offenses.

  • Motschutkoffsky's statement, that when a slight post-critical rise occurs a relapse will follow, must be applicable only to a limited number of cases.

  • In the present state of our scientific knowledge it is necessary to admit that there is a limited number of febrile and inflammatory disturbances occurring in puerperal women, the bacterial origin of which may be fairly questioned.

  • A limited number of Japanese youths might at the same time be educated in our own vernacular, and mutual benefits would result to both Governments.

  • Where seed is scarce, the burrs are sometimes planted in squares 3 feet apart each way, a limited number of burrs being dropped at one time.

  • A limited number of these will thus form after the crop has been mown for hay.

  • Note: The genus is restricted by modern zoölogists to a limited number of species similar to Lernæa branchialis found on the gills of the cod.

  • Particular redemption, the doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race.

  • By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.

  • A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.

  • He had not given them in vain; and, besides, the practice of them, although confined to a limited number of the faithful, exerted on all sides a beneficent influence which facilitated and secured the observance of the precepts.

  • As governments are composed of a limited number of individuals, all that has been said of tolerance, considered individually, may be applied to them.

  • We will sell a limited number of these engravings at the price of 85 cents each.

  • It is a book of 400 pages, imperial octavo, and a limited number is offered at $6.

  • Another principle to be mastered is this: A vine should bear only a limited number of clusters,--say from 30 to 80.

  • The essential operation of pruning a Grape vine, therefore, is each year to cut back a limited number of good canes to a few buds, and to cut off entirely all the remaining canes or wood of the previous season's growth.

  • In a limited number of cases the distal fragment lies in front of the proximal, and there is inversion of the limb.

  • In a limited number of cases the equinus attitude is assumed to compensate for shortening of the limb.

  • In a limited number of cases, even with the aid of an anæsthetic, reduction by manipulation is found to be impossible.

  • At that time, similarly to the Orders of the Garter and the Thistle, the order was of one class only and composed of a limited number of knights.

  • Yet the principle of compulsory arbitration for a limited number of international differences was by no means negatived by the Hague Peace Conferences, especially not by the Second Conference.

  • A limited number of men were totally blind, mostly from bomb explosions, and a large number of others had received wounds in one eye or in the orbit.

  • It is the old story--the reversion to direction by a limited number of experienced and responsible people.

  • The finely printed Chancellor's Edition, of which only a limited number of sets have been issued to subscribers only.

  • Very scarce, only a limited number of copies having been issued.

  • The well printed Newstead Edition, of which only a limited number of sets were issued for subscribers only.

  • Warwick Edition, of which only a limited number of sets were issued for subscribers only.

  • It must be remembered, that both speak different languages intelligible to each other only in a limited number of words.

  • Moreover, the town council, instead of being freely elected, filled up vacancies in its ranks by co-optation, with the result that all power became vested in a limited number of rich families.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limited number" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    colored people; draw near; duties towards; limited cultivation; limited extent; limited government eradication program; limited illicit; limited monarchy; limited natural fresh water; limited period; machine tools; military dictatorship; mother will; mountain scenery; nursery governess; olden days; profound knowledge; proper motion; rich wife; social value; something between; stirring occasionally; that young; thou lord; volcanic phenomena; when required