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Example sentences for "proper quantity"

  • When cold, mix it with three quarters of a pound of flour, a tea-cupful of milk, a proper quantity of yest, and salt.

  • A proper quantity of household articles should always be ready, and more bought in before the others are consumed, to prevent inconvenience, especially in the country.

  • The deleterious effects of opium, which are so often experienced in the form of laudanum, may in great measure be counteracted by taking a proper quantity of lemon juice immediately afterwards.

  • The cream is then deposited in a separate vessel, till a proper quantity is collected for churning.

  • After the head has been thoroughly cleaned, put it into a stewpan with a proper quantity of water, an onion, some sweet herbs, mace and cloves, and a little pearl barley.

  • Having taken in a proper quantity of water at this place, with four pipes and ten puncheons of wine, some fresh beef, and a large quantity of onions, we weighed anchor on the 12th, and continued our voyage.

  • If therefore the mass contain too little Silver, it must either be melted down again, and a proper quantity of Silver added; or else, if the Gold be in a sufficient proportion to the Silver, they may be parted by means of aqua regis.

  • The pigment having been selected, it may be reduced to any shade or tint by admixture with other pigments, and by 'dilution' with a proper quantity of elutriated or prepared chalk.

  • For 20 pounds of feathers, a strong decoction is made of 25 pounds of logwood in a proper quantity of water.

  • Mix the ingredients together with the proper quantity of water, and tread the mass well.

  • The malt liquor has a proper quantity of yeast added to it.

  • We should arrive at quantities smaller still by diluting the solution with a proper quantity of water; but greater precision would be entirely needless.

  • The fermentable matter, such as sugar, with a proper quantity of yeast, and diluted with water, is put into the matrass.

  • After this we pour on a proper quantity of sulphuric acid, and the sebacic acid passes over by distillation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dishonorable discharge; higher grade; hilted sword; indifferent things; just give; many great; proper amount; proper attention; proper condition; proper consistence; proper consistency; proper division; proper manner; proper motion; proper name; proper object; proper order; proper person; proper size; proper treatment; properly made; properly speaking; properly understood; properly used; property right; property rights