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Example sentences for "small quantity"

  • The nucleus of the ovum, or the germinal vesicle, is thus pressed right to the surface of the globular ovum, and is embedded there in a small quantity of transparent matter, the so-called white yelk.

  • Here it is surrounded by a small quantity of protoplasm, and with this forms the lens-shaped formative yelk (Figure 1.

  • He usually ate in the course of a day a penny roll and drank a small quantity of wine.

  • There was no loss of semen, but after the paroxysms a small quantity of glairy mucus escaped from the meatus.

  • Preslin speaks of a woman who invariably had a hemorrhage after swallowing a small quantity of vinegar.

  • It perforated the tympanum, and before the expiration of twenty-four hours was coughed up from the throat with a small quantity of blood.

  • Economical marketing does not mean the purchase of inferior articles at a cheap price, but of a small quantity of the best materials found in the market; these materials to be wisely and economically used.

  • Small quantity and no waste, just enough and not a piece too much, is a good rule to remember.

  • Buffalo skin, some dryed roots, several platts of the sweet grass, and a small quantity of Mandan tobacco.

  • When a dose is required, a small quantity of the paste is dried and pulverised on a flat shell, and the powder, then drawn up into both nostrils at once through two vulture quills secured together by cotton thread.

  • We gathered several quite ripe ones; they were pleasant to the taste, of the true pineapple flavour, but had an abundance of fully developed seeds, and only a small quantity of eatable pulp.

  • It visits the caju trees, and gathers with its hind legs a small quantity of the gum which exudes from their trunks.

  • A small quantity of the syrup should be occasionally sprinkled over them whilst drying; after which, pack them down in jars, sprinkling each layer with powdered sugar.

  • Mash and strain ripe pokeberries; to each pint of juice put a pound of sugar; boil them together till it becomes a jelly; when cold put it in a jar and tie it close; use a small quantity of this to stain ice cream or jelly.

  • If the yeast is fresh, a small quantity will do; if several weeks old, it will take more.

  • A small quantity of the syrup prepared in this way, poured into cold water, makes a refreshing drink in warm weather.

  • Then for a refrigerator there are several very simple chests which require only a small quantity of ice to keep them charged.

  • An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium.

  • A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.

  • That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.

  • A little; a small quantity; a measured supply.

  • While quinces are not used so extensively as most other fruits, there are many uses to which they may be put and much can be done with a small quantity.

  • However, this argument may be discounted, for a well-ripened banana contains such a small quantity of starch that no consideration need be given to it.

  • Then return the pulp to the kettle, add a small quantity of water, and let it boil again for a few minutes.

  • It is well, in storing dried foods, to use containers that will hold only a small quantity of food, so that when some is taken out to be cooked a large amount will not be exposed.

  • As their flavor is very strong, a small quantity of quince pulp used with apples or some other fruit will give the typical flavor of quinces.

  • To drink a small quantity; to take a fluid with the lips; to take a sip or sips of something.

  • To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

  • A small quantity; a little bit; not much.

  • In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness.

  • Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

  • I was shown a small quantity of this metal which had been lately collected: the grains were about the usual size, but much flatter than those of Manding, and were found in white quartz, which had been broken to pieces by hammers.

  • Yet again if one has any disease like the itch, or it may be worse, and applies a small quantity of this gall he shall speedily be cured.

  • Major Sladen saw a small quantity of nuggets in the possession of a Kakhyen who had brought them from a hill two days north of Bhamó.

  • In a small quantity of water I washed a part of a bunch of grapes, the grapes and the stalks together, and the stalks separately.

  • The grape-must does not ferment when there is added to it a small quantity of the juice of the inside of the grape.

  • There remains on the filter a highly colored crystalline "cake," which should be pulverized with a small quantity of petroleum ether and again filtered.

  • I merely mention the most convenient way of disposing of it in works where only a small quantity is recovered, and which do not practice dyeing on an extensive scale.

  • The volatile gases are thus driven off from the wood; what is left is C, and a small quantity of mineral matter which remains as ash when the coal is burned.

  • To refine brown sugar it is dissolved in water, a small quantity of blood is added to remove certain vegetable substances, after which it is filtered through animal charcoal, i.

  • Continue this operation till a small quantity of liquid is found in the bottle.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small quantity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    established himself; small amount; small area; small bulb; small class; small clearing; small clusters; small detachment; small dimensions; small evergreen; small fish; small flock; small fragment; small fragments; small holes; small kind; small letters; small majority; small number; small numbers; small stewpan; small vessels; small work; smaller quantity; stellar evolution; whose heart