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Example sentences for "minimum"

Lexicographically close words:
minimized; minimizes; minimizing; minimo; minims; minimus; mining; minion; minions; minis
  1. Wyss and Bock had several good opportunities of determining the minimum period of incubation, and found it to be six days.

  2. The minimum of danger, and often more than the minimum, does, however, exist.

  3. On the other hand, the disease is usually at its minimum in May and June.

  4. The minimum duration in a very slightly-marked case was three days: the maximum duration was fourteen days.

  5. The pulse from the first is rapid, ranging from 130 as the minimum in a malignant case to a frequency which can scarcely be counted.

  6. The Committee believes the guidelines are a reasonable interpretation of the minimum standards of fair use.

  7. The basic principle underlying this provision is that the courts should be given discretion to increase statutory damages in cases of willful infringement and to lower the minimum where the infringer is innocent.

  8. Its periodic time from minimum to minimum is two days, twenty hours, and forty-nine minutes, lacking a few seconds.

  9. The plan contemplates the attainment of this objective with a minimum of Federal expenditures.

  10. These standards include as a minimum the establishment of fair wages and fair employment practices.

  11. But our 40-cent minimum wage is inadequate and obsolete.

  12. In this connection, for example, the Congress should consider the extension and broadening of our social security system, better housing, a comprehensive national health program, and provision for a fair minimum wage.

  13. Lifting the basic minimum wage is necessary, it is justified as a matter of simple equity to workers, and it will prove not only feasible but also directly beneficial to the Nation's employers.

  14. We have answered it by increasing our minimum wage.

  15. I recommend the lifting of the minimum wage to 75 cents an hour.

  16. The proposed higher minimum wage levels are feasible without involving serious price adjustments or serious geographic dislocations.

  17. It is particularly vital at this period of readjustment in the national economy and readjustment in employment of labor to extend minimum wage protection as far as possible.

  18. Under conditions of global war, expenditures for private construction and equipment were held to a minimum and inventories were depleted.

  19. In the first place the union should have the right to demand a minimum wage and a minimum working day.

  20. Collective bargaining should establish the minimum amount of work and pay; but the maximum of work and pay should be left to individual arrangement.

  21. So a wholesome democracy should seek to guarantee to every male adult a certain minimum of economic power and responsibility.

  22. Yet the instinctive desire of every one is for peace and comfort, for the maximum of good with the minimum of exertion; and therefore the normal person dislikes to see interjected into human life the abominable confusion of war.

  23. For he also would wish to lead us back to the crude state of nature, and regards the reduction of our wants to the minimum as the surest path to happiness.

  24. Third, improve control of the sale of firearms requiring as a minimum registration of every firearm sold together with adequate identification of the purchaser.

  25. And we have been advised that the minimum time for firing the rifle in successive shots is approximately two and a quarter seconds.

  26. Third, keep to a minimum the President's movements within crowds, remain on the rostrum after the public addresses rather than mingling with the audience.

  27. I always felt that the minimum was an inspiration from some cause, and the maximum was actual pay, but like you asked for evidence, I don't have any.

  28. My offhand feeling is that 6 months is not an unusually short period of time, but it certainly is getting down to about probably the minimum of our experience with such things.

  29. We require a minimum academic achievement of 4 years of college or university, and preferably those who attend police administrative schools, where they have in their curricula subjects on science, criminology, and law.

  30. As to the firing of the rifle--we have been advised that the minimum time for getting off two successive well-aimed shots on the rifle is approximately two and a quarter seconds.

  31. To the overseer on a plantation the black labourer was a machine out of which the problem was to get the maximum of work with the minimum of pay.

  32. The maximum of expense, the minimum of benefit to the island, is all that has come of it.

  33. Moreover, there is at these lofty stations no pronounced lag of the maximum and minimum temperatures for the year behind the times of greatest and least heating such as we have at lower levels in the temperate zone.

  34. In the curves of daily maximum and minimum temperatures we have clearly brought out the uniformity with which the maxima of high-level stations rise to a mean level during the winter months (May-August).

  35. The curves show relative humidity falling to a very low minimum on clear days.

  36. The difference in elevation of the two profiles gives less than the minimum amount of uplift that must have occurred.

  37. The minimum cloudiness recorded about 11 a.

  38. It is important that the proposed curve of snow motion under minimum conditions be tested under a large variety of circumstances.

  39. The absolute minimum for the two years was -22° C.

  40. But in the thickening of the snow far beyond the minimum thickness required for motion at the base of the cirque wall and its change of function with transformation into névé, we need invoke no other agent.

  41. Since clouds form at night in quite variable amounts--in contrast to the nearly cloudless days--there is a far greater variability among the minimum temperatures.

  42. Based on many observations of snow motion to show minimum thickness of snow required to move on a given gradient.

  43. The minimum conditions of snow motion and the bearing of the conclusions upon the formation of cirques have been described in the chapters immediately preceding.

  44. The belt is at a low elevation in high latitudes and at a high elevation in low latitudes, with many irregularities of position dependent upon the local and especially the minimum winter temperature.

  45. The minimum size of a plantation, on which economical application of oil and fiber preparing machinery could be made, is 60 hectares.

  46. The growth was remarkably strong and vigorous, notwithstanding that the water of irrigation had been applied in such a way that the tree could only hope to derive a minimum of benefit from its application.

  47. From the Atlantic to the south of Spitzbergen and Franz Josef Land a belt of low atmospheric pressure (minimum belt) extends into the Siberian Arctic Sea.

  48. It is the form of the function itself which is required to be discovered, from the condition of the maximum or of the minimum of a certain definite integral, merely indicated, which depends upon that function.

  49. It is, then, no longer the values of the variables belonging to the maximum or the minimum of a given function that it is required to determine.

  50. In mine there exists the least amount of friction, the minimum of spiral motion, and a most extensive range, with the smallest expenditure of expellant force.

  51. It is based on that law of nature which will always tell in mechanical productions; namely, minimum of friction, and hence maximum of propulsion or velocity; the greatest possible range with the least amount of expellant agency.

  52. Gunnery is good only when recoil exists in a minimum degree.

  53. Correct direction is certain in proportion to the increase of weight; deflection being in the minimum with the heavier weight, from the well known law of momentum.

  54. What are the minimum and maximum salaries in each grade and division of your cataloging force?

  55. We also find that too many towns are satisfied with this compulsory minimum tax, and that the only time their fiscal representatives hear about libraries is just before the budget appropriations are voted.

  56. She feels that this method reduces to a minimum the difficulty of assigning subject headings, and the danger of scattering material through doing this poorly.

  57. The library should be assured of reasonable and sufficient financial support, either through the operation of a special-tax provision or by the requirement of a minimum appropriation by the authorities.

  58. The maximum intellect and capacity of one race may greatly exceed the minimum of another, without placing them on an equality.

  59. Undoubtedly it is: and hence we arrive at the conclusion, that a mountain island should afford us the minimum of size, as regards the areas its species have overspread, which any country is able to furnish.

  60. These societies obtain their funds by laying a tax of one shilling per month on every member above eighteen years of age, and of six pence per month on all members under that age and above twelve, which is the minimum of membership.

  61. When the country shall be filled with inhabitants, and the price of labor shall have reached a minimum, (a comparative minimum I suppose is meant,) free labor will be found cheaper than slave labor.

  62. It helps to relax if you imagine your arm held to the shoulder by a single hair, and that if you move it with a force beyond the minimum needed to raise it, it will drop off entirely.

  63. Earlier, Frank had been directed to reduce the “entire Polish economy to an absolute minimum necessary for bare existence.

  64. The contracting parties being neutral in the present war, but binding themselves to support these principles by a combined armed fleet of a fixed minimum number, the agreement received the name of the Armed Neutrality.

  65. This wire edge is reduced to a minimum by the oilstone, and is then so fine that it is practically of but little account; to remove it, however, the plane blade or iron may be buffed backwards and forwards on the palm of the hand.

  66. The amount of rolling motion of the teeth one upon the other while passing through the path of contact, will be a minimum when the tooth curves are correctly formed according to the rules given.

  67. This enables a minimum of feed to be put on the wheel, wear being obviously reduced in proportion as the feed is lighter and the duty therefore diminished.

  68. When, however, it is required to reduce the pinion to a minimum diameter, it is obvious that this may be accomplished by selecting the finer pitch, because the finer the pitch, the less the diameter of the wheel may be.

  69. That excessive slipping dries out the leather and leads toward the condition of minimum adhesion.

  70. Thus the piece of work is finished without being released from the holding devices, which insures truth while requiring a minimum of attendance.

  71. From the great amount of heating surface obtained with these tubes, the fire box may be kept at a minimum diameter for the duty, while still leaving a wide space for the water leg, which facilitates the circulation.

  72. That a minimum of measuring and gauging shall be required to test the diameter and form of the thread.

  73. They will not obviate defective construction in the engines themselves, or faulty proportion of their parts, or neglectful supervision of their working, but they will reduce to a minimum the risk of breakage in such untoward circumstances.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minimum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ace; adequate; ample; atom; bit; commensurate; competence; competent; decent; dole; dot; dram; dribble; driblet; due; dwarf; enough; farthing; few; fit; floor; fragment; good; grain; granule; groat; hair; handful; iota; jot; least; little; lowest; margin; meager; minim; minimal; minimum; minutiae; mite; modicum; molecule; mote; nutshell; ounce; particle; pebble; pinch; pittance; plenty; point; proportionate; satisfaction; satisfactory; scruple; speck; spot; substantial; sufficient; suitable; tittle; whit


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    minimum rates; minimum wage