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Example sentences for "single family"

  • All the other members of the group may be regarded as forming a single family--the Proctotrypidae, including an immense number of small parasitic Hymenoptera, not a few of which are wingless.

  • They have been usually regarded as a single family, but W.

  • They are usually regarded as forming a single family--the Apidae--but there is very great diversity in structural details, and Ashmead divides them into fourteen families.

  • Finally, the bonds which exist between them and it are much more like those which unite the members of a single family; the animals and the men are made of the same flesh, as the Buandik say.

  • To account for that, it was imagined that they formed a single family; genealogies, a civil condition and a history were invented for them.

  • There is doubtless considerable difference in the number of valves of the bulbus arteriosus among the various Ganoids, and even among the species of a single family (e.

  • All the species belong to a single family, Lepisosteidæ, which includes the modern garpikes and their immediate relatives, some of which occur in the early Tertiary.

  • The group contains a single family, the Embiotocidæ, or surf-fishes.

  • This group consists of a single family, Polyodontidæ, having apparently little in common with the other Ganoids, and in appearance still more suggestive of the sharks.

  • Until recently the Enteropneusta have been usually placed in a single family or even in a single genus.

  • Of the Paleozoic types, however, all but a single family seems to have died out, leaving Cestraciontes only in the Permian and Triassic.

  • The lancelets, less than a dozen species in all, constitute a single family, Branchiostomidae.

  • In the United States the 160-acre farm is managed by and supports a single family, but in Japan, as the average household works but 2.

  • Much hemp was being grown in southern Korea but everywhere on very small isolated areas which flecked the landscape with the deepest green, each little field probably representing the crop of a single family.

  • From this largest and oldest ancestral family four other families have afterwards arisen, whilst a single family, the Sphaerocapsida, seems to possess no direct phylogenetic connection with the five other families.

  • There is yet in reality no law to prevent the creation of unhealthy districts as long as five or six families are allowed to live in one house intended for a single family.

  • Several cases have recently occurred in this district of landlords erecting dwelling-houses in the back-yards of those houses which were formerly occupied by a single family.

  • The Medical Officer of Health for St. Mary, Newington, reported (1873) that year by year the better class of houses were becoming less and less inhabited by a single family.

  • There is indeed one animal, whose powers of contrivance would account for its distribution over the globe, even supposing it to have begun with a single family, not more than 4300 years ago, and to have ranged from a single centre.

  • It might still be true that all but the least conspicuous members of the world’s population belong to a single family, or to an extremely small number of separate lines of descent.

  • This work was not severe enough to be beyond the power of a single family, and no call was therefore made upon the labours of the community, as in the case of public works of greater magnitude.

  • The Yavu or Building Site The nucleus of every Fijian village has been at no very remote date a single family, inhabiting a single house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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