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Example sentences for "square foot"

  • The dried blood on the floor was first moistened with water, and the lash of the warder was applied till the wretches kneeled down and cleaned their square foot of flooring.

  • The table gives the resistances per square foot in pounds, at the standard speed of 600 feet per minute, and the power of the speed to which the friction is proportional, so that the resistance at other speeds is easily calculated.

  • Columns C give the resistance in pounds of a square foot of surface at the distance sternward from the cutwater stated in the heading.

  • Let pc be the compression pressure and q the volume discharged per second per square foot of outlet area of fan.

  • The lesser aggregate weight is deducted from the greater, and the difference is divided by the weight of a square foot of the lightest tiling, thus reducing it to square feet of such lightest tile.

  • A square foot of the tiling actually put in is weighed, and a square foot of the tiling required by the contract is also weighed.

  • The following table calculated by the above formula gives the quantity of air in cubic feet per hour discharged through a flue of 1 square foot cross-section.

  • At ordinary working temperature a square foot of hot pipe surface will radiate about 15 B.

  • Suppose such a flue contains an area of 1 square foot in cross-section and that it is desired to estimate the air discharged from the flue per hour.

  • A square foot of soil, 18 inches deep, was dug from the second portion of the land which produced the clover-hay and clover-seed.

  • It is so easy to make a little mistake; and when you take only a square foot of land, as was the case with Nos.

  • A square foot of an inferior rug is sold for about sixty cents, and the time required for weaving it is but two days, thus allowing the weaver thirty cents per day for her wool and labor.

  • A square foot of the best Persian rug is worth about ten dollars, and it takes a single weaver twenty-three days to complete this portion.

  • For instance, it is inconceivable that 1 or 2 tons may sometimes be allowed on a square foot of soft clay, while the load on firm gravel is limited to from 4 to 6 tons.

  • The writer's practical observations have convinced him that it is frequently much safer to put four times 6 tons on a square foot of gravel than it is to put one-fourth of 2 tons on a square foot of soft clay.

  • Near Nice large castings abound in extraordinary numbers, so that 5 or 6 were often found within the space of a square foot.

  • King on a square foot of surface, calculated to yield per acre 14.

  • King often found five or six of them on a square foot of surface; and these, judging from their average weight, would have weighed together 7.

  • Some engine-makers will allow a square foot of grate-surface for every cubic foot of water per hour, which is expected to be evaporated in the boiler; others allow only half a square foot: and practice varies between these limits.

  • The quantity of grate surface necessary in proportion to the power of the engine, has been equally unascertained, and engine-makers vary in their practice from half a square foot to one square foot per nominal horse-power.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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