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Example sentences for "moderate amount"

  • During this time, the student may indulge in physical recreation, social intercourse, and a moderate amount of reading.

  • A more judicious practice would be, to exercise more and use a moderate amount of clothing, together with a more nutritious diet.

  • Before visiting a sick person it is judicious to take a moderate amount of nutritious food.

  • Why should only a moderate amount of soap be used in bathing?

  • As a rule it is rather scanty, but 30 per cent of the Kayans had a moderate amount.

  • It is usually fairly long and abundant on the head, but in 6 men it is noted as thin; 7 have a slight amount of hair on the face and 1 a moderate amount on the legs.

  • There is a moderate amount on the face and none on the body.

  • If the medicine be given gradually diluted with only a moderate amount of water, the effect is better on the inflamed fauces.

  • A moderate amount of tumefaction may disappear by resolution, but if it be considerable it seldom abates in this way, but by the tedious and exhausting process of suppuration or gangrene.

  • We have found, on my property, such an appreciable effect from even a moderate amount of such holes, that I am now largely increasing their number.

  • They grow best in sandy peat, or in leaf-mould with a liberal addition of sand, and they require a moderate amount of moisture.

  • The best position for them is a sheltered one where they can get a moderate amount of sunshine to develop the flower-buds.

  • Give plenty of water in summer, a moderate amount at other seasons.

  • When the weather is favourable let them have a moderate amount of fresh air.

  • They do best when supplied with a moderate amount of farmyard manure, supplemented by suitable artificials, but can be grown on some soils with artificials alone.

  • For a fine crop a moderate amount of well-decayed dung applied in autumn is almost essential, as well as 3 to 4 lb.

  • A moderate amount of smoke in the evening and another application in the morning will be more destructive to the vermin, and less injurious to the plants, than one strong dose.

  • We need a moderate amount of food to maintain the body in health, but we should be careful not to overindulge.

  • A moderate amount of them may be eaten with breadstuffs, or they may be taken alone, or with milk, or with nuts, or with acid fruit.

  • Neither stomach nor bowels manufacture any perceptible amount of gas if they are in good condition and a moderate amount of food is taken.

  • The cheeses containing but a moderate amount of fat are the best.

  • A moderate amount of fat, in the form of butter, can be given with this vegetable diet if desired.

  • After the third day a moderate amount of diacetic acid appeared in the urine and continued.

  • In this case, after starvation, a moderate amount of acetone appeared and continued.

  • Fish, eggs, and fowl may be eaten, also a moderate amount of lean meat in the form of beef, lamb, and mutton.

  • After this age a moderate amount of dancing in a well-ventilated room is good exercise.

  • A moderate amount of exercise should be taken every day; this is needed now quite as much as at any other time, and only good can result from it.

  • Puerperal mania resulted in one case cited, from the use of a moderate amount of wine at mealtimes; when the wine was abandoned the mania subsided.

  • It is best to begin giving it early and in small quantities: two to six ounces is a moderate amount, eight to twelve ounces daily is not too much for adynamic or complicated cases.

  • During this second stage, however, owing to the proximity of the swellings to the joints, a moderate amount of synovitis is often present.

  • Still, it is possible that a moderate amount of periosteal and osteal hyperaemia and over-irritation matures the teeth abnormally.

  • A moderate amount of food containing starch after the period indicated may be allowed, but always with a preponderance of animal food.

  • On the other hand, hydrochloric acid is not poisonous either to animals or to Drosera, and induces only a moderate amount of inflection.

  • I had no idea that there was so much in her; she will be far more attractive than Sara when she has developed a moderate amount of vanity.

  • But, if you will allow me to give you a hint, Marshall earns good wages, and there ought to be sufficient money to pay for a moderate amount of help.

  • I could discharge my duties to my own class and enjoy a moderate amount of pleasure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always advisable; customs duties; little quiver; many pages; moderate breeze; moderate cost; moderate degree; moderate elevation; moderate height; moderate length; moderate oven; moderate oven for about; moderate winters; moderately juicy; moderately productive; moderately strong; moderately warm; nearly square; pale rose; perhaps half; spot where; then fold; this company; thus related; violent hurry; yellow streak