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Example sentences for "quantities"

Lexicographically close words:
quantitatem; quantitative; quantitatively; quantite; quantitie; quantity; quanto; quantum; quantus; quaque
  1. In such case, capital will be preferably employed on the old land, and will equally create a rent; for rent is always the difference between the produce obtained by the employment of two equal quantities of capital and labour.

  2. It is often difficult to ascertain the proportion between two different quantities of labour.

  3. It is thus that the money of each country is apportioned to it in such quantities only as may be necessary to regulate a profitable trade of barter.

  4. Lands of different quality, with the employment of the same capital, will yield very different quantities of raw produce.

  5. The real and ultimate regulator of the relative value of any two commodities, is the cost of their production, and neither the respective quantities which may be produced, nor the competition amongst the purchasers.

  6. If these two quantities were equal, wages would continue unaltered; but if the commodities taxed were not those consumed by the labourer, his wages would fall, and his employer would be benefited by the difference.

  7. But there are mines of various qualities, affording very different results, with equal quantities of labour.

  8. With every worse quality employed, the value of the commodities in the manufacture of which they were used would rise, because equal quantities of labour would be less productive.

  9. Its fertile black soil generated more than one-fourth of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms provided substantial quantities of meat, milk, grain, and vegetables to other republics.

  10. The PPP method involves the use of standardized international dollar price weights, which are applied to the quantities of final goods and services produced in a given economy.

  11. With few natural resources, Belgium must import substantial quantities of raw materials and export a large volume of manufactures, making its economy unusually dependent on the state of world markets.

  12. The nuts will be returned and placed in cold storage to be exhibited at the State Fair next fall and we have sufficient quantities on hand for individual displays as well as for collections.

  13. In 1940 we brought quantities of improved varieties to the cracking plant in Knoxville and ran them through Mr. Smalley's machine.

  14. A 50-pound tin lard can with one 20d nail hole in the side near the lid has proven to be a good container for large quantities and these same cans also make good shipping containers merely by wiring on the lids.

  15. At the present time we have a plan worked out whereby we can produce large quantities of Chinese chestnuts in Alabama.

  16. This may be due to the fact that so far Kentucky is not using great quantities of these plants, or it may be due to the fact that the varieties used have been reasonably hardy.

  17. Bonaparte therefore insisted on corn being stored and sold in large quantities and at a very low price, even when considerable loss was thereby entailed.

  18. Large quantities of sand were brought from the seashore, until, unfortunately for the housewives, some inquisitive official found that it hailed from the West Indies.

  19. The gentleman was much struck with the large quantities of wild raspberries, that clothed the fences on either side of the track.

  20. A very remarkable tendency of modern discovery shows more and more clearly that not only are these things quantities which we can express in units of our own choosing, but that Nature herself has already chosen units for them.

  21. All three are quantities and all are expressible in terms of units.

  22. Instruments are made for the purpose of measuring quantities of electricity in terms of the legal standard.

  23. They also wear quantities of coloured bead necklaces and bracelets, brass ear-rings and finger-rings; and whenever they can get them, they wear gold or silver coins hanging on the foreheads.

  24. The gardeners brought us beautiful bouquets and quantities of oranges; and we walked about or rested on the divans in the arcade till it was time to go home.

  25. We saw great quantities of granite lying scattered about.

  26. This it is to have learned the proper quantities and kinds of food; the proper amount of bodily exercise and work; and the complete subjugation of all the ancient forces of unrest and disquiet.

  27. It is impossible to enumerate the vast quantities of things which they took with them.

  28. Its size will depend on the quantities of grapes to be packed.

  29. Acetic acid is made from pomace by drying it in vapor-tight rooms, during which process 50 to 60 per cent of the weight of the pomace becomes vapor, and this, condensed, yields considerable quantities of acetic acid.

  30. The dried currants of commerce are made from grapes, and of these California produces small quantities from White Corinth.

  31. In large wineries, the hydraulic press has almost driven out the other two forms of power and when great quantities of grapes must be handled a number of hydraulic presses are usually in operation.

  32. He had telegraph and express franks, railway and Pullman passes in such quantities that it made his coat pocket bulge to carry them.

  33. For many years he kept and extended his interests in shipping, building ships and buying large quantities of timber from the northward and eastward, and sending it down the river and so to sea.

  34. The port is frequented only by the fishing-smacks, which land vast quantities of lobsters and shrimps.

  35. Considerable quantities of vegetables are exported, the population living apparently on fish, and the "farms" are divided into plots so small as to be almost infinitesimal.

  36. Quantities of steelhead and silver salmon go up at least to Branscomb and King salmon go at least to Ten Mile Cr.

  37. The Sinkyone were, however, well supplied with fish products by the Eel River, which not only had an excellent salmon run but also provided quantities of lamprey eel.

  38. They require to be given in large doses which are carefully regulated for every individual patient, as the quantities required vary enormously.

  39. In consequence of that extreme cold, those northern seas are full of such immense quantities of ice, that they are sometimes almost covered with them.

  40. Scarcely had they entered the field before a flock of larks rose up in such innumerable quantities as almost darkened the air.

  41. This success animated them very much, and they continued working upon that spot till all their provisions were consumed; they gathered daily large quantities of ore, but then they suffered very much from hunger.

  42. Sometimes it is buried in considerable quantities in the earth, and then they contrive to inflame it, and to escape in time.

  43. Large quantities of corn were stored away for summer use in dry cellars.

  44. The survey of the British over the western coasts was close enough to bar those supplies, at least in the quantities that the negroes demanded.

  45. Even larger quantities of coffee were exported to foreign ports.

  46. The countries which supplied us with quantities of corn now groan under the iron yoke of the Tigress of the North or lie desolate from this infernal war.

  47. Only by a speedy retreat could he save his men; and at midnight he drew off, leaving behind 32 siege guns and large quantities of stores.

  48. In Kildare there are complete regiments, with large quantities of arms in their possession.

  49. He encountered quantities of fine timber in the country through which he travelled, and some day it would be logged, but at present the difficulties were too great.

  50. This he held against the hot stove until its surface had softened, when he began to swab liberal quantities of grease on his spiked river shoes, which he fished out from under his bunk.

  51. The tail, on the contrary, is caused by the lighter particles of the comet's attenuated atmosphere being blown off by the electric blast of the radial stream of the solar vortex, in sufficient quantities to render its passage visible.

  52. But, what wonderful elements must a comet be made of, to project themselves into space with such immense velocity, and in such enormous quantities as to exceed in volume the body from which they emanate many millions of times.

  53. It is economical, requiring but small quantities to cover large areas.

  54. In purchasing this fertilizer in large quantities demand a guaranteed analysis, otherwise you are liable to get something little better than what you take out of your stove, and wholly useless for lawn purposes.

  55. The quantities here given will fill a mold of four-dozen size--the sort illustrated on page 10.

  56. Knead small quantities at a time until the whole batch is smooth.

  57. As far as the amateur candy-maker is concerned, however, the controversy is not of practical interest, for almost all of the sugar that is sold in small quantities is made from beets.

  58. As long as the proportions are kept the same, the quantities do not matter much--theoretically.

  59. Cook until very thick equal quantities of granulated sugar and sweet potato--prepared as before--and add a few drops of oil of cinnamon.

  60. He mixed with the gum large quantities of sulphur, and small quantities.

  61. The boy, in his rage for knowledge, had read vast quantities of this literature, and, of course, embraced the theory of the writers that pushed denial farthest.

  62. It happened too, in 1830, that vast quantities of the raw gum reached the United States.

  63. The gas also occurs in minute quantities in the common minerals of the earth's crust.

  64. It was, in fact, by the fusion of ice that quantities of heat were first measured.

  65. In order to estimate the quantities of heat concerned in experiments with gases, it was necessary in the first instance to measure their specific heats, which presented formidable difficulties.

  66. For the majority of purposes the most convenient and the most readily applicable method of measuring quantities of heat, is to observe the rise of temperature produced in a known mass of water contained in a suitable vessel or calorimeter.

  67. For measuring large quantities of heat, such as those produced by the combustion of fuel in a boiler, the most convenient method is the evaporation of water, which is commonly employed by engineers for the purpose.

  68. But the quantities of heat absorbed and given out are not necessarily equal.

  69. In principle, the simplest and most direct method of measuring quantities of heat consists in observing the effects produced in melting a solid or vaporizing a liquid.

  70. For large buildings where large quantities of hot water are used an independent boiler of suitable size should be installed.

  71. Sir John Herschel's, devised an ice-calorimeter suitable for measuring small quantities of heat, in which the difficulty of the water film was overcome by measuring the change in volume due to the melting of the ice.

  72. For equal temperature-gradients the quantities of heat conducted (or the relative conducting powers of the bars) would therefore be proportional to the squares of the distances to which the wax finally melted on each bar.

  73. While Lisbon grew by leaps and bounds the country-side was denuded, and the landowners, to fill the places of the peasants who had become sailors, imported quantities of negro slaves.

  74. The gilds soon found themselves at the mercy of the great new companies that wanted wares in large quantities for export.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quantities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; acres; affluence; amplitude; army; avalanche; barrel; bevy; bonanza; bunch; cloud; clutter; covey; extravagance; exuberance; fertility; flight; flock; flood; flow; fullness; generosity; gush; hail; heap; hive; host; jam; landslide; lavishness; liberality; load; lot; many; mass; maximum; mob; mountain; much; multiply; multitude; myriad; nest; numbers; ocean; oodles; opulence; outpouring; overflow; pack; peck; plenitude; plenty; plurality; prevalence; prodigality; productiveness; profusion; quantity; ream; repletion; riot; rout; ruck; scads; scores; sea; shoal; shower; slew; spate; stream; substantiality; superabundance; superfluity; swarm; thousand; throng; tons; volume; wealth; world